[Samba] How to safely rejoin an upgraded linux domain member?

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:04:18 +0000
Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> The leave / join process of a samba server is straight forward and
> should give no grief.
> 
> Build the new server, sync the data with rsync -AXavz (will preserve
> all xattr) from old to new (with old server running and in ops) also
> sync the smb.conf file. I understand shares will be equal if not
> update smb.conf. On transition day advise of downtime, do a final
> rsync (should be quick).
> 
> Stop samba, remove smb.conf and power off old server.
> 
> Join the new server with same name. Users should not notice the

I would think the only possible way of anything noticing is if the
computers SID is used in a search. Even though everything is the same,
leaving the domain and joining again will mean the computer being
treated as a new machine with a new SID.

Rowland