Hi all I'm a relative newcomer to samba, having a few problems with what I thought would be a fairly straightforward migration from an NT4 to a Samba PDC. Summary of what I've done so far: * Set up samba on a second PC and configured it as BDC. * VAMPIREd all of the accounts across to the BDC. * Shut down original NT PDC, installed Linux + Samba on same hardware. * Promoted second PC to PDC by modifying smb.conf appropriately. * Copied contents of /var/lib/samba, /etc/samba, and unix accounts across to new samba installation on the original PDC, and shut down samba on second PC. At this point I went off and messed around configuring shares, printers etc. Everything seemed to be working fine. However, when I try to run User Manager or Server Manager on one of the domain workstations to manage the domain, I'm getting error messages - 'could not find domain controller for this domain' or similar. Also, in Server Manager the PDC is shown as "Windows NT backup" rather than "Windows NT Primary". Any attempts to promote, and I get 'access denied'. I've spent the afternoon trying to get to the bottom of this, but I can't. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Martin
could you please post your smb.conf ? micha Martin Brook wrote:> Hi all > > I'm a relative newcomer to samba, having a few problems with what I > thought would be a fairly straightforward migration from an NT4 to a > Samba PDC. > > Summary of what I've done so far: > > * Set up samba on a second PC and configured it as BDC. > * VAMPIREd all of the accounts across to the BDC. > * Shut down original NT PDC, installed Linux + Samba on same hardware. > * Promoted second PC to PDC by modifying smb.conf appropriately. > * Copied contents of /var/lib/samba, /etc/samba, and unix accounts > across to new samba installation on the original PDC, and shut down > samba on second PC. > > At this point I went off and messed around configuring shares, > printers etc. Everything seemed to be working fine. > > However, when I try to run User Manager or Server Manager on one of > the domain workstations to manage the domain, I'm getting error > messages - 'could not find domain controller for this domain' or > similar. > > Also, in Server Manager the PDC is shown as "Windows NT backup" rather > than "Windows NT Primary". Any attempts to promote, and I get 'access > denied'. > > I've spent the afternoon trying to get to the bottom of this, but I > can't. Can anyone offer any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > Martin-- Michael Gasch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Human Evolution (IT Staff) Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany Phone: 49 (0)341 - 3550 137 49 (0)341 - 3550 374 Fax: 49 (0)341 - 3550 399 http://www.eva.mpg.de/evolution/