[Samba] Migrating Samba and Users to another Fedora 3 box

[Paul Gienger]

>So, could someone please help me out with moving user info and /home
>directory to the new box?  Here are some of the things I am assuming I
>will need to keep me from recreating users and what not:
>
>/etc/passwd - for system users
>/etc/samba/smb.conf - my config
>/etc/samba/smbusers - samba user info
>/home - all user dirs and public shares are in here
>
>Is that it?
>  
>
Are you running a domain?  If so you'll want to grab most/all the .tdb 
files from the /var/lib/samba (I think) directory at a minimum.

>Also, this might be the wrong place for this, 
>
Just barely ;)

>but...I can't do a
>tar.gz of the home directory due to the fact that the drive is almost
>full.  I need to make a tar.gz put | it to the new box via scp.  I
>have seen it done before, can anyone point me in the right direction
>for a how-to?
>  
>
Well, tar will keep your permissions, so just doing a straight up scp is 
out.  The easiest way *I* would do it would be using nfs and tar like 
so... I believe you would need to have your home directory(s) 
provisioned in such a way that you could export the parent over nfs.  In 
my setup, I have /export/home and then user's home directories are 
automounted out of that, so if I were doing it, I would do the following:

1. Mount /export on the new box to like /mnt/tmp or something.
2. Move to the container on the new box that will hold the home dirs 
(would probably /export again in my world , but we'll call it /newExport 
for clarity)
3. Run this command from /newExport:
tar -cf - -C /mnt/tmp home | tar -xvf -

Now the explanation of that command:
tar - we all know what that does
-cf - create an archive on a named file, in this case the file is -
- - special argument that is stdout (i believe)
-C move to the named directory (/mnt/tmp) before doing anything.  This 
gets rid of the /mnt/tmp that would be prepended to all the file paths 
in the archive if we were doing something like tar -cf somefilie.tar 
/mnt/tmp/home
/mnt/tmp - dir to move to
home - directory inside of /mnt/tmp to tar up
| - pipe stdout (remember that - argument?) to the next command, tar
tar - no explanation
-xvf - extract, with verbose output the named file (-)
- - file to extract, in this case it's stdin

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