[Samba] classic upgrade, splitting servers

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 23 May 2017 17:22:09 +0200
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Am 2017-05-23 um 17:12 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via samba:
> > Am 2017-05-23 um 16:59 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> > 
> >> As this is testing, rather than changing anything now, re-run the
> >> classic upgrade, but this time do it on a a machine with the
> >> required hostname and change the netbios name in smb.conf.
> > 
> > so:
> > 
> > rm -fr /var/lib/samba/*
> > 
> > edit/set hostname and /etc/hosts, maybe reboot
> > 
> > classic-upgrade ...
> 
> I still get "server.my.tld" into the records.
> Does classic upgrade read that from wins.dat or so ?
> 
> 
> 

As far as I am aware, you just need to change the netbios name setting
in smb.conf.

I take it you are following this:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Migrating_a_Samba_NT4_Domain_to_Samba_AD_%28Classic_Upgrade%29#The_classicupgrade_process

Rowland