[Samba] Upgrading samba 3.3.x to 3.5.x old smbpasswd file and domainaccounts

[Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator]

Hi,

I plan to update our main RedHat EL 5.6 samba server from samba 3.3.x to
3.5.x .

What I noticed as our main challenge so far, is migrating the user and
machine accounts from our old smbpasswd file to a tdbsam-.tdm fileformat.

pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passwd.tdb

throws a lot of errors regarding useraccounts which did not exist on the
posix passwd/shadow side.

If I remove the deleted accounts from the sambapasswd file as well, the
convertion goes on.

But what about the machine accounts which are in the smbpasswdfile and
not in the passwd/shadow file?

Thanks for any suggestion and comment.

	Regards . Götz
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Götz Reinicke
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