[Samba] Difficulty converting from RH 7.3 to Debian Sarge

[Eric J. Feldhusen]

Various distrobs store the .tdb files in different locations, some are 
/var/lib/samba, some under /var/cache/samba/ and some in /var/db/samba.

You'll need to store those .tdb files in the correct location for your 
distro.  I've seen the same exact thing with redhat 8,9 and various 
fedora cores.  I don't know where redhat 7.3 or debian store them, but 
if you do a  "smbd -b" and look for "LOCKDIR: /something/something", 
that /something/something is where the debian samba is looking for the 
.tdb files.

Eric Feldhusen

Rich Marsh wrote:
> 
> I am running debian sarge 2.4.27-3-686 and samba version 3.0.14a-Debian
> .  The previous machine was running rh 7.3 (valhalla) 
> 2.4.20-29.7.progeny.11, samba version unknown.  I have restored all 
> shares and directories.  Most of users can access everything, however 
> our login script will not run.  For those users that cannot log in 
> re-joining them to the domain not only works but then the login script 
> runs as well. 
> Obviously we are missing a key file from the old machine that relates to 
> the machine accounts.  I copied all the .tdb files over and placed them 
> in the appropriate dirs, but still it won't work.  I don't want to have 
> to disjoin and re-join all my users since then all their information 
> will need to be copied over to the newly created profile.  Any and all 
> help is appreciated.
> .tdb files copied over:
> 
> -brlock.tdb
> -connections.tdb
> -locking.tdb
> -messages.tdb
> -ntdrivers.tdb
> -ntforms.tdb
> -ntprinters.tdb
> -printing.tdb
> -secret.tdb
> -sessionid.tdb
> -share_info.tdb
> -unexpected.tdb
> 
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