[Samba] metod for change domain name

[Marcos Ariel Negrini]

Hello Andrew:
Do you have more information on this topic that can guide us?
Regards

Marcos Negrini

El 15/04/2021 a las 12:16, Rowland penny via samba escribió:
> On 15/04/2021 15:52, Marcos Ariel Negrini via samba wrote:
>> Hello Rowland:
>> the restore does not give error, the issue is which directory to 
>> point to in the restore, because it asks me for an empty directory, 
>> otherwise it throws error.... and as it is compiled I can not empty 
>> the /usr/local/samba, because there I have the binary of the restore 
>> command, so I tried erasing the /usr/local/samba/var and telling it 
>> to restore there, but the content that generates me is different from 
>> the original var, and does not match the original /usr/local/samba, 
>> so I deduced that it would be the contents of /var of an installation 
>> from repos...
>>
>> for example:
>>
>>
>> original:
>>
>> /usr/local/samba:
>>
>> bin
>> bind-dns
>> etc
>> include
>> lib
>> lib64
>> private
>> sbin
>> share
>> var
>>
>> /usr/local/samba/var:
>>
>> cache
>> lib
>> lock
>> locks
>> run
>>
>> restore in:
>>
>> /usr/local/samba/var:
>>
>> backup.txt
>> bind-dns
>> etc
>> gencache.tdb
>> msg.lock
>> names.tdb
>> private
>> state
>>
>> that's why I said that I understand that moving file by file of the 
>> restore in the original installation could work .. but I wanted to 
>> know if it's okay to do so or is likely to break everything.
>
>
> As I said, I have never tried this and the documentation is a bit 
> ambiguous, it says this:
>
> The targetdir specifies the new location for all the samba files 
> (smb.conf, sam.ldb, etc)
>
> The only problem with that is, smb.conf goes in one directory and 
> sam.ldb goes in another, yet only one directory is set with 
> 'targetdir=<restore-dir>'
>
> Andrew, If I remember correctly, the backup tools were written by 
> Catalyst, so can you explain just how to use the restore command ?
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
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