samba migration

[Ian Wilson]

Hi Vu;

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:50 AM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> I have a RH9 server with Samba. I am going to migrate it to another server
> with RHEL5. How can I migrate the samba database ? Can I just copy over ?

I recently migrated a RHEL3 machine to RHEL5, and I followed the
following steps:

I scp'ed the /etc/samba/passdb.tdb file to the RHEL5 machine
I ensured that the critical parts of samba's configuration files were
the same (the global section in the conf file)
I then ensured that the local users/groups were sync'ed correctly
between the two machines.

>From there, I halted samba on the RHEL3 machine, and started samba on
my RHEL5 machine, and verified that my users could still access their
files and printers, and didn't have any issues.

If you run into any issues, let me know.

Ian
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