[Samba] Linux-to-Linux Samba Migration

Guillermo Dalla Vecchia hertor28 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 20:35:03 GMT 2006


Maybe you can try with NIS or NIS+. What database backend are you using?
Regards

On 3/28/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-samba at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'm working on migrating from Mandrake 10.0 to Ubuntu 5.10. The last,
> and probably most important, service to be moved is Samba...
>
> The setup is fairly simple, here is is:
>
> - Mandrake Linux 10.0
> - Samba 3.0.10
>
> Here's the "global" Samba configuration of my server:
>
> [global]
>         workgroup = <workgroup name>
>         server string = <string>
>         passdb backend = tdbsam:/etc/samba/passdb.tdb
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         unix password sync = Yes
>         time server = Yes
>         load printers = No
>         add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
>         delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
>         add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
>         delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
>         add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u
>         add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null
> %u
>         logon script = scripts\%U.bat
>         logon drive = H:
>         logon home = \\%N\%U\profile.w98
>         domain logons = Yes
>         wins support = Yes
>         ldap ssl = no
>         idmap uid = 15000-20000
>         idmap gid = 15000-20000
>         admin users = root, tom
>         create mask = 0770
>         directory mask = 0770
>         veto oplock files = /*.xls/
>
> Transferring the files and the associated shares is the easy part. What
> I'm concerned about is getting the domain and user/group information to
> transfer without having to reconfigure all of the workstations or all of
> the user/group accounts on the new server.
>
> I looked to see if I could find such a guide for doing this but wasn't
> able to--not sure if maybe I'm searching for the wrong terms or whatnot.
>
> Any suggestions offered and/or pointers to documentation would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> ~ Tom
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