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

[Gaiseric Vandal]

I would have thought you needed to have "unix" machine accounts in the 
passwd/shadow file.  Or are they using some sore of idmap allocation?

On 01/14/2011 04:34 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
> 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
>