[Samba] SAMBA4: pdbedit not changing SID

[Simon Matthews]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 09:26 +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
>> 2013-04-01 02:36 keltezéssel, simon+samba at matthews.eu írta:
>> > Since I don't seem to be having any luck with the classicupgrade, I 
>> > decided to try starting from scratch and then adding users.
>> >
>> > I ran the command:
>> > /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain provision --realm=<my realm> \ 
>> > --domain=<mydomain> --adminpass 'mypass' --server-role=dc  \
>> > --dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ
>> >
>> > Then I tried both adding and changing users. In neither case can I 
>> > change the SID with pdbedit. It seems to be added with a 
>> > system-defined SID, irrespective of what I specify. pdbedit -v is able 
>> > to list the user's parameters, including the SID.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions? I am pretty much stuck here trying to figure out how 
>> > to migrate from an existing SAMBA3 domain to SAMBA4.
>> >
>> >
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Trying to add users one by one (preserving SID) is IMHO a lot harder 
>> (you would probably need to ldbmodify the user record of each one) to 
>> do, than fixing your samba3 install to have it classicupgraded.
>
> Indeed.  The only way to safely import a list of users who already have
> SIDs is to migrate them to Samba 4.0's AD DC using one of the supported
> migration tools.
>
> These are 'samba-tool domain join dc' and 'samba-tool domain
> classicupgrade'.

Perhaps I need to address why the "classicupgrade" did not work. I see now 
that I did not pass the --dbdir option when running it before. I'll try 
again.

If I could change the subject somewhat, I am also not clear on how to 
configure SAMBA4 and the DNS server if my network has an existing DNS 
server on another machine and I don't really want to move it. The DNS 
server is a stock install of bind from the distro's repository: 
bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.4.x86_64

Simon