[Samba] transfer users after samba upgrade to new server

[Bill Szkotnicki]

Thank you Dale.

Actually I did this by importing smbpasswd with
pdbedit -i smbpasswd:smbpasswd

And it works in the sense that my users can map a drive with their same 
credentials.

But I have something else to consider.
The old server was a domain master and so I have some win XP machines 
that login to it and there is a netlogin.bat etc.
Given that all of the user password and machine passwords are now 
imported I wonder if that will continue to work when I switch over.
If anyone has any insight on this I would appreciate it.
I will be performing a test switch  over on Monday at noon 
Guelph,ON,Canada time.

Bill


On 05/07/2012 02:35 PM, Dale Schroeder wrote:
> On 05/06/2012 10:14 AM, Bill Szkotnicki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to transfer all of my users from an older version of samba to 
>> a new one here.
>>
>> The old version is 3.0.28 and the file with user passwords
>> is /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>>
>> and the new version is 3.6.5 and there does not seem to be that file 
>> anymore.
>> I think the user info is now in
>> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb
>> /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb
>>
>> My question is how to transport my users to my new system?
>> i.e. How to convert
>> /etc/samba/smbpasswd ------> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Bill,
>
> The smbpasswd backend is still available; it's just no longer the 
> default.  You must explicitly state "passdb backend = smbpasswd" in 
> smb.conf.
>
> To convert, copy the smbpasswd file from the old machine to the new 
> one, then follow the example in the Samba HowTo under "Account 
> Import/Export" found at
>
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html#pdbeditthing 
>
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dale