[Samba] Problem with moving PDC to new server

Stéphane PURNELLE stephane.purnelle at corman.be
Wed Jul 16 14:11:48 GMT 2008


the domain SID must be the same.
is the domain SID are identic between the old and new server.

net getlocalsid domain


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Stéphane PURNELLE                         stephane.purnelle at corman.be
Service Informatique       Corman S.A.           Tel : 00 32 087/342467

samba-bounces+stephane.purnelle=corman.be at lists.samba.org a écrit sur 
16/07/2008 16:06:26 :

> I tried a similar trick with the added step of changing from a tdbsam 
> backend to ldap and found the same windows profile issue.  Strangely if 
> the user was a local or domain admin things were ok.  I found the only 
> work around at the time was backup the users profile before deleting it 
> and letting windows create a new one and transferring anything important 

> back from the old profile.
> 
> In my case the retiring server was CentOS 4.5 and the new one CentOS 5.2
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Aaron Johnson wrote:
> > All,
> > I am in the process of moving a PDC to a new server, the config, *.tdb 

> > files, linux user account files (/etc/passwd,shadow,group) and /home 
> > have all been moved successfully, shares and authentication is working 

> > great.
> > 
> > Issue:
> > When I login and the system loads my roaming profile all my "recent 
> > Programs" list are gone, I cannot add more programs to this list in 
the 
> > start menu (no error just won't show) and it appears other windows 
> > settings are not getting properly loaded either (i.e. I have a gray 
> > start bar instead of my normal green/blue bar)
> > 
> > Background on the move:
> > Old Server:
> > Ubuntu 6.06(i386) running Samba 3.0.22
> > 
> > New Server:
> > Centos 5.2(i386) running Samba 3.0.28
> > 
> > Clients:
> > All Windows XP Pro previously part of the Domain
> > 
> > Any one have any advice for solving this issue?
> > 
> > Aaron
> 
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