[Samba] Domain rename

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:55:07 +0000
bd730c5053df9efb via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> 
> I know this has been asked multiple times but I haven't found an
> answer yet so here I go again. I manage a domain, not too large but
> large enough to make it a complex task to recreate an entire domain
> and rejoin every computer, and the domain was created long ago
> without an ad subdomain so, is there any way to recreate an entire
> domain renaming the domain part of everything but preserving all the
> ID's and users and passwords?
> 
>

Not in a supported way, you can backup your domain using samba-tool and
rename that, but it isn't supported for long term use i.e. in
production.

Rowland