[Samba] Building a new machine SOLVED

linux starved linuxstarved at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 19:11:32 GMT 2005


That is what we did not do, thanks a ton Gary! This will certainly save us a 
ton of headaches in the future.

On 9/14/05, Gary MacKay <gary at edisoninfo.com> wrote:
> 
> linux starved wrote:
> > On 9/13/05, Paul Gienger <pgienger at ae-solutions.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>We recently suffered a server loss, during the power an unforgiving
> >>
> >>power
> >>
> >>>outage. I built a new machine, copied over all information contained in
> >>>the
> >>>home directory, and also copied shadow, shadow passwd, groups, passwd.
> >>
> >>Did you even bother with any of the samba information? The smbpasswd, 
> and
> >>tdb files?
> >
> >
> >
> > We copied the enitre samba directory over, renaming all default install
> > files i.e.smbpasswd to smbpasswd_default
> >
> But did you get the /var/lib/samba and/or /var/cache/samba files? They 
> contain all of the SID info and such.
> 
> >
> >>I was able to set the permissions and ownership they way it was on the 
> old
> >>
> >>>server, and everything looked well. However when I asked the users to
> >>
> >>log
> >>
> >>>in, they couldn't. Is there a file I should have copied over, that 
> would
> >>>"trick" these machines into thinking they were authenticating to the 
> old
> >>>samba server?
> >>
> >>More info please!!!What errors
> >
> >
> >
> > I cannot give an exact message error since it is a remote office but it 
> is
> > close to,
> >
> > 'The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's 
> computer
> > name is missing or the password on the account is incorrect.'
> >
> >
> >>We are running debian sarge on the 2.6.8 kernel and samba version 
> 3.0.14a-
> >>
> >>>3.
> >>>All help is appreciated, thank you in advance.
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> 
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