[Samba] Migrate and Update (Samba 4.1 ADDC to Samba Latest Version on different Server).

[Juan Ignacio]

Thx for your fast reply Rowland.

About, " I would normally suggest you keep upgrading the distro to Bullseye
(11),
but in your case, I would pause here.
"
Will try to update up to bullseye dont have nothing to lose right now.

I'm going to inform you after the upgrade is complete so I can start to do
what you suggested.

Thx in advance.


El mié, 16 nov 2022 a las 13:27, Rowland Penny via samba (<
samba at lists.samba.org>) escribió:

>
>
> On 16/11/2022 14:21, Juan Ignacio wrote:
> > Hi Rowland and Samba Team:
> >
> > I finally had time to clone the old server with Debian 7 and Samba 4.1
> > to a VM on proxmox and updated the Debian distro to Debian 10.
>
> I would normally suggest you keep upgrading the distro to Bullseye (11),
> but in your case, I would pause here.
>
> >
> > I think now its time to update the Samba installation, i have vm backups
> > so im secure right now.
> >
> > What is the best procedure to start the update to the latest versión of
> > Samba, the server is a AD Samba 4.1 with 2 Linux Member Servers who work
> > like file servers.
>
> Forget the Unix domain members in the short term, they are the least of
> your worries.
>
> I would upgrade the DC's by adding a new DC on your new VM, once this
> has been joined and is running correctly, I would then transfer all the
> FSMO roles to the new DC.
>
> Now demote every other DC, just leaving your new DC.
>
> Create another VM, but this time use Bullseye and Samba from Debian
> backports, this will get 4.16.6. Repeat the procedure above, until you
> just have a DC running Samba 4.16.6 with all the FSMO roles.
>
> You can now add further DC's and test the Unix domain members, they
> should still work.
>
> > Is using winbind and the all the needed packages, some webapps login the
> > users using this server.
>
> You may have to alter how the webapps login, but then you may not.
>
> Rowland
>
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