[Samba] Migration 3.5 to 4.x, realm identical to domain

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 11:01 +0200, Philippe Maladjian wrote:
> Le mercredi 01 juin 2022 à 09:29 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba a
> écrit :
> > On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 08:59 +0200, Philippe Maladjian wrote:
> > > That's exactly what I do. I copied the VM from my samba 3.5 and
> > > created a VM of a user station, all placed in a dedicated network
> > > that does not communicate with the prod network. After adding the
> > > VM
> > > pc to the domain at 3.5 test, I make several
> > > connection/disconnection
> > > attempts to make sure that the rights management works correctly.
> > > 
> > > To perform the migration by changing the domain name I should
> > > follow
> > > this procedure:
> > > - take the test pc out of the domain;
> > 
> > If by 'pc' you mean the Samba PDC, then yes, but I would 'clone' it
> > and
> > then place this on a separate subnet that isn't connected to your
> > production network.
> 
> No 'pc' is a Windows user station that I cloned by a p2v to my test
> network.

You need to clone your Samba PDC, this is what holds your users &
groups in ldap.

Rowland