[Samba] How to migrate samba to new box

Tri Trinh tri.trinh at triton-it.com
Sun Jul 19 10:34:18 MDT 2009


2009/7/19 Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com>:
> 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
>
> PS: list admins. Can you please modify the reply-to header to point to
> the list? Thanks.
>

Thanks Norberto for your instant reply :-) Will try the task again...

Cheers,
Tri


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