samba - Jun 2004 - Converting local user account(LDAP) to samba account

hi all,
   I have got a redhat 9 linux machine with all user account maintained in
ldap.               
   Now I plan to install a samba pdc with ldap as backend.
   
   Can anyone in this list guide me how to migrate all current user account
   (posixAccount) maintain in ldap to samba account.

thanks in advance.

Yunus wrote:
>hi all,
>   I have got a redhat 9 linux machine with all user account maintained in
>ldap.               
>   Now I plan to install a samba pdc with ldap as backend.
>   
>   Can anyone in this list guide me how to migrate all current user account
>   (posixAccount) maintain in ldap to samba account.
>  
>
For getting your posix data in, you should really be asking the LDAP 
lists. 

For getting your samba data from the smbpasswd file to ldap, use the 
pdbedit command: 

pdbedit --import=smbpasswd:/path/to/smbpasswd --export=ldap

>thanks in advance.
>  
>
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On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 09:20, Yunus wrote:
> hi all,
>    I have got a redhat 9 linux machine with all user account maintained in
> ldap.               
>    Now I plan to install a samba pdc with ldap as backend.
>    
>    Can anyone in this list guide me how to migrate all current user account
>    (posixAccount) maintain in ldap to samba account.
> 
> thanks in advance.
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see migration tools in /usr/share/doc/openldap-YOUR-VERSION

Craig