[Samba] Need support

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 04:37 -0400, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2013, at 4:22, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 03:19 -0400, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> >> On Aug 5, 2013, at 0:09, ketut.nurasa at dexagroup.com wrote:
> >> 
> >>> dear Samba team,
> >>> 
> >>> Today we have used samba ver. 3 as primary domain controller at my 
> >>> company. To improve the Samba technology and feature to support our 
> >>> business , we want to upgrade to Samba 4. 
> >>> 
> >>> Is there any tools or support to provide upgrade solution from Samba 3 to 
> >>> samba 4 ?
> >>> 
> >>> For the information current Samba version we are used and running on 
> >>> Mandriva :
> >>> samba-common-3.0.23b-7mdv2007.0
> >>> samba-server-3.0.23b-7mdv2007.0
> >>> samba-smbldap-tools-3.0.23b-7mdv2007.0
> >>> samba-client-3.0.23b-7mdv2007.0
> >>> samba-doc-3.0.23b-7mdv2007.0
> >>> 
> >>> Any suggestion or support please contact me.
> >> 
> >> Although no longer technically supported, the upgrade provision script has done well for many people. Have you considered trying it in a virtual environment?
> > 
> > The upgradeprovision script is not for upgrades from Samba 3.x or
> > classic domains, it is about old (very old) databases from the 4.0 alpha
> > series.  Use of the samba-tool domain classicupgrade command remains and
> > will remain fully supported.
> 
> Sorry, Andrew,  you are correct. I meant classicupgrade instead of upgradeprovision (to be fair,  it's 4:30 AM on this side of the pond :))  
> 
> Although I thought that classic upgrade still had some issues to be worked out, IIRC from the mailing list/IRC discussions. Am I mistaken?

Due to the range of possible source configurations the classicupgrade
code may fail.  Most of these failures are due to what I consider
invalid configuration of the old classic domain, but which were not
detected previously, as we had not validation tool in the past.  

That said, we can and should work around these and the other remaining
issues, and patches are very much welcome.

Andrew Bartlett

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