[Samba] Server migration

[Daniel Müller]

What I noticed while I migrated to a VM Centos 5.5 from a real machine. Be
aware to not use the pdc as time server. I never succeeded to
make this work. Meanwhile I am back to a real machine. IN my oppinion VM 
in this case is nuts 

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:03:11 +0400, "henri" <ciradhb.forward at laposte.net>
wrote:
> Hi all  (and best wishes for the new year to everyone :-) ) 
> 
>  
> 
> I have currently a Samba 3.5.6 server that acts as a PDC and print
Server,
> with tdbsam backend, no LDAP at all. 
> 
>  
> 
> In a very next future, I will have to migrate samba to a new server (a
VM
> actually). 
> 
> This migration will have to be seamless for all users (more than 200
user
> accounts with more than 200 PC  in the domain). 
> 
>  
> 
> The technical constraints will be : 
> 
> - migration from Readhat 9.0 to Centos 5.5 
> 
> - the DNS name of the new server will change 
> 
> - the IP address of the new server will change (but still in the same
> network) 
> 
> - the samba server netbios name (which is currently the same as the
machine
> DNS name) will have to be changed  
> 
> - everything else should remain the same : domain name , shares, home
> directory, domain admin account, ... , the netlogon scripts can be
adapted
> if necessary
> 
>  
> 
> My objectives are that after migration : 
> 
> 1) All PC that are currently joined to the domain will stay in the
domain 
> 
> 2) All users will keep their SID and thus their original sessions on
their
> PC 
> 
>  
> 
> What is the best way to proceed ?
> 
> I guess that just moving all the samba configuration files to the new
> machine will not be enough. 
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
>  
> 
> Henri