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

[Philippe Maladjian]

Le mercredi 01 juin 2022 à 10:08 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba a
écrit :
> 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.

I cloned a user workstation and the Samba domain controller
(ldap/dns/dhcp) to my test network.

> 
> Rowland
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