samba - Jun 2003 - Moving Samba installation from one host to another

Hello,

last week I experienced some problems when moving a Samba installation from one
host to another host.

The old system ran Samba 2.2.8 on a SuSE Linux 7.3
The new system is also running Samba 2.2.8 but on Debian Woody 
The Client Systems are all running Win2K SP1. One is running Win2K SP2. One is
running Win98.

I moved smbpasswd to the new host. I also made sure that all entries in passwd,
group and shadow existed on the new system. Anyway all computers lost the
connection to the Domain when switching to the new Samba PDC. I had to remove
all hosts from the domain and let them join the domain again in order to get it
working again. Also all Windows SIDS associated with the users had changed.

Any idea what I've done wrong ?

Regards
Manfred

You forgot to to transfer your domain-SID to the new samba-server.

This can be done by running rpcclient on the old samba-server and run 
the "lsaquery" command. This will output the domain-SID. Next you copy
and paste this in to a file called "MACHINE.SID" on the new server
(this
file should be placed in the private subdir where secrets.tdb is 
located) and remove the secrets.tdb file. If samba is restarted the 
domain-SID (from MACHINE.SID) is imported into the secrets.tdb.

At last you should transport the smbpasswd file (located in the private 
subdir) from the old samba-server to the new samba-server.

Things should now be up and running fine...

MH - Entwicklung wrote:
>Hello,
>
>last week I experienced some problems when moving a Samba installation from
one host to another host.
>
>The old system ran Samba 2.2.8 on a SuSE Linux 7.3
>The new system is also running Samba 2.2.8 but on Debian Woody 
>The Client Systems are all running Win2K SP1. One is running Win2K SP2. One
is running Win98.
>
>I moved smbpasswd to the new host. I also made sure that all entries in
passwd, group and shadow existed on the new system. Anyway all computers lost
the connection to the Domain when switching to the new Samba PDC. I had to
remove all hosts from the domain and let them join the domain again in order to
get it working again. Also all Windows SIDS associated with the users had
changed.
>
>Any idea what I've done wrong ?
>
>Regards
>Manfred
>
>
>  
>
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