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

Jakob Curdes jc at info-systems.de
Fri Feb 28 11:50:16 UTC 2025


Sounds great. I will follow this and see if we are missing anything.

Regards, Jakob


Am 28.02.2025 um 12:29 schrieb Luis Peromarta via samba:
> Like so ?
>
> http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:upgrade-file-server
>
> Feedback appreciated
> On 28 Feb 2025 at 08:08 +0000, Jakob Curdes via samba<samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
>> Am 27.02.2025 um 19:58 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
>>> 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
>> Ok, thank you both very much for confirming, that is what I thought.
>> Maybe we could write this down somewhere in the wiki. I once had access,
>> I think,  but need to dig for the credentials.
>>
>> Regards, Jakob
>>
>>
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