samba - Aug 2003 - Moving Samba from one computer to another one

Hi all.

I need to move the samba server from one computer (samba 2.2.3a, RedHat 7.2) to
another one (samba 2.2.7). 
This server acts as a PDC.

I configure the new computer to have the same workgroup but not the same
netbios name. I also copied my profile from the old server to the new one.

I switch off the old server and switch on the new one.
When I try to log in on from my Win2k machine I got an error which says
that the SID is not the correct.

I tried to copy the MACHINE.SID and secrets.tdb from the old server to
the new one but that does not work

Does anyone already have this problem or know a solution ?

Thanks in advance,
Laurent.

Laurent Vaills ?rta:
>Hi all.
>
>I need to move the samba server from one computer (samba 2.2.3a, RedHat 7.2)
to
>another one (samba 2.2.7). 
>This server acts as a PDC.
>
>I configure the new computer to have the same workgroup but not the same
>netbios name. I also copied my profile from the old server to the new one.
>
>I switch off the old server and switch on the new one.
>When I try to log in on from my Win2k machine I got an error which says
>that the SID is not the correct.
>
>I tried to copy the MACHINE.SID and secrets.tdb from the old server to
>the new one but that does not work
>
>Does anyone already have this problem or know a solution ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Laurent.
>
>  
>
Stop Samba on the new machine, delete MACHINE.SID and secrets.tdb (you 
wouldn't needed copiing them), edit smb.conf on the new account and take 
care to have domain master = no, start Samba on the old machine, start 
Samba on the new one, then on the new one as root type smbpasswd -S . It 
will store the domain SID of the old machine in secrets.tdb of the new 
machine. Stop samba on both machine. Edit smb.conf on the new one, and 
change domain master = yes. Thats all.

Good Luck!

Geza Gemes