I tried this a week ago and afterward, none of the windows clients on
our network would recognize "admin users" (Domain admins) as actual
Administrators. It could have been because of differences in user and
machine accounts (/etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow* are probably
really important in this regard), but even after quite a few hours of
debugging, I still couldn't get the windows clients to "trust" the
PDC's
admin users.
A better way to migrate/shift the PDC machine may be to transition to an
LDAP backend rather than smbpasswd, and then setup the machine to be
shifted to as a BDC. Then, after all is working with the LDAP-based
PDC/BDC setup, decommission the PDC and shift the BDC into place.
Abe
anu bhaskar wrote:> hi,
>
> i have a smba server working as pdc. users are managed using smbpasswd.
> i want to shift the server to a new machine (without changing any
> configuration). which all configuration files i have to copy to the new
> machine.
>
> greetings,