samba - Jul 2002 - migrating samba to different machine

I tried migrating our samba settings from one machine to another, but
Windows sees it as a different server.

I currently have an older version of samba setup on an old machine.  I
setup the latest version of samba on a different machine with different
build specs (e.g. acl support, etc.).  I migrated over the
usernames/passwords and MACHINE.SID file (is this even used anymore?)
and setup smb.conf to have the same domain name and netbios name.

When I login as user XX to machine YY, instead of user XX's profile, it
creates a profile folder called XX.domain_name.

What are the requirements to be able to migrate from one machine to
another without losing anything?  My smb.conf is slightly different
(purposefully - but only on things that should effect it acting as a
PDC).

Thanks.

--Kaleb

Kaleb Pederson:
> I tried migrating our samba settings from one machine to another, but
> Windows sees it as a different server.
> I currently have an older version of samba setup on an old machine.  I
> setup the latest version of samba on a different machine with different
> build specs (e.g. acl support, etc.).  I migrated over the
> usernames/passwords and MACHINE.SID file (is this even used anymore?)
> and setup smb.conf to have the same domain name and netbios name.
> When I login as user XX to machine YY, instead of user XX's profile, it
> creates a profile folder called XX.domain_name.
> What are the requirements to be able to migrate from one machine to
> another without losing anything?  My smb.conf is slightly different
> (purposefully - but only on things that should effect it acting as a
> PDC).
> Thanks.
> --Kaleb
Kaleb,

what version of Samba are you using? The information in the
MACHINE.SID file has been migrated to a tdb database in recent
releases.


-- 

Joerg Lenneis

email: lenneis@wu-wien.ac.at