[Samba] Samba share migration - looking for advices

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Aug 1 12:52:00 UTC 2018


On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:39:34 -0300
Edouard Guigné via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I plan to change an old samba share (SMB1) configured on an Samba PDC 
> "old NT4 Style" server.
> For that plan, I choose to migrate domain from the old NT4 domain to
> on Microsoft Active Directory (Windows 2012 R2) set with posix
> attributes rfc2307, and then change the old Samba share with a new
> linux box (centos 7) with winbind, sssd configured against Microsoft
> AD. At this occasion, I hope to upgrade from SMB1 to SMB2 or above.
> 
> I imagine to do the following :
> 1. Change domain for all workstation from old NT4 to new Microsoft AD 
> (but keep user access to old SMB1 Samba share via windows server
> login scripts).
> 2. Configured a new linux box against AD (centos 7, I am used with
> this linux).
> 3. Copy all datas from old share to new share (common share +
> homedir). 4. Copy / Synchronize acls from old share with getfacl, and
> set acls on new share with setfacl.
> 5. Change windows server login scripts to enable new samba share on
> user session instead of old SMB1 share.
> 
> I appreciate any advices for theses steps of migration, because I
> never did it before.
> Is there tools or methods to  copy/synchronize datas between old SMB1 
> share to new share ? And get/set acls on files ?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ed
> 
> 

There isn't anything to upgrade directly to a Windows domain, but you
could upgrade to a Samba domain and if you do, there wouldn't really be
any reason to use a Windows DC.

There is one big problem with all this though, you still cannot set up
a Samba AD DC on Centos using OS packages.

As for item 5, you do not really use logon scripts with AD.

Rowland



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