[Samba] Replacing a Samba server

[Alan Hodgson]

On Monday 14 July 2008, Scott Grizzard <scott at scottgrizzard.com> wrote:
> If you are using an LDAP backend, just slapcat all of the data out of
> the old server, and dump it into the new one.  The new Samba will read
> the SID from LDAP, and your clients shouldn't notice the difference.
>

You also need to copy the local samba databases - a lot of stuff isn't 
stored in LDAP, like printer driver settings. Everything 
from /var/lib/samba/ would be good, as well as all your share directories 
of course.

If you copy all that stuff your clients shouldn't notice the difference.

-- 
Alan