[Samba] How to migrate samba to new box

[Norberto Bensa]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Tri Trinh<tri.trinh at triton-it.com> wrote:
> Thanks Norberto, since we need to map Windows groups to linux groups,
> and create linux users whenever we create Windows users, do I need to
> re-create all linux groups and users on the new box as well? If yes,
> please advise if the user and group id must be the same on 2 boxes.
> Rgds,
> Tri
>

Oh yes. You can copy the users from /etc/passwd and groups from /etc/groups.

Don't copy the whole files, just copy & paste the entries you need.


Regards,
Norberto

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