[Samba] Samba AD DC migration and official packages

[Federico Alberto Sayd]

On 27/12/12 19:07, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 13:42 -0300, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> Recently I have tried Samba AD DC (Samba4), because I want migrate our
>> Samba 3 installation to Samba AD DC (Samba4). My tests were
>> successfully, I could migrate a copy o f my samba 3 installation.
>>
>> Now I want to migrate my real installation to Samba4 but my question is
>> about packaging. For now there is not a  v4.0 stable Samba package in
>> Debian Wheezy, and I don't want install a rc version.
>>
>>    I can compile and install Samba 4 in Debian, but what about a future
>> migration to official and stable packages provided by Debian? How
>> painfull would it be such a migration?
>>
>> Can someone confirm what archives does contain the essential domain data
>> (Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, etc) to migrate in the future to a packaged Samba
>> AD DC?
> The essential data to the DC is all in the private directory, and the
> smb.conf is in etc.  The sysvol share (pointed at in smb.conf) is also
> critical, and you should ensure you maintain xattrs when you move that
> around.
>
> Finally, the files in 'lock' should be moved to the Samba state
> directory of your eventual debian install.
>
> I agree that the situation around official packages in all the
> distributions is frustrating, and I hope we can get a cleaner solution
> soon.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
Thank you very much for your quick answer. This data is very useful.

Federico