samba migration

Vu Pham vu at sivell.com
Mon Sep 1 18:59:30 PDT 2008


Ian Wilson wrote:
> 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, yes, copying those files works fine for me. I tried several users 
and all could access the server without any problem.

Thanks,

Vu



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