[Samba] Copy usernames and passwords to another machine

[Chris Rodgers]

Dear Matthias,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm actually fine with all the steps you last apart from how to have the 
"same Samba database on both servers".

Can anyone explain whether it is OK simply to copy the 
/var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb from the first machine to the second one??

My concern with this is that I want both systems to be operational 
afterwards, so the new machine has a different netbios name than the 
first one? If I copy the account database as-is, will I encounter 
problems  due to SIDs not being compatible??

Best wishes,

Chris.

> Hi,
>
> Your 2 Samba servers are file servers only? No AD nor NT4 domain?
>
> If they are both file servers you would need:
> - Samba installed on both server, same configuration as a start (could of
> course be changed later)
> - Same users defined in system side (copying your users lines from
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow from working file server to the new one. Don't
> copy services accounts - as ssh, postgresql...- nor root account, just
> Samba users lines).
> - Same Samba database on both servers. Here you have to find on your
> working file server where is stored that database, I have no idea about
> that.
>
> Once all that is copied from your working server to the new one both should
> work identically (except for shares where paths or files could be missing).
>
> That's just an idea, I didn't tested that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> mathias