samba - May 2005 - getting SID on a Samba 2.2.2 domain

Replacing an old Samba 2.2.2 server with a newer Samba version, and would like
to set the SID to the same as the old server. However, 2.2.2 doesn't have
the 'net' utilities or anything else that I can find to display the SID.
Anyone have any hints?


Thanks,
Jonathan Wilson

Hi Jonathan,

If the machine is a domain controller, log onto one of your Windows 
machines that has joined the domain and check the registry under 
HKEY_USERS, there will be entries there that reflect the SID of the domain. 
I used this to discover the SID of a TAS server for which I needed the SID. 
TAS was not cooperative, but my client machines were.

If your old machine is not a domain controller, I think it does not matter 
that the SID changes when going to the new machine, as there is no user 
information dependent upon the SID of the server in this case. Please, if 
this is not correct, someone write a clarification.

Regards,
Chuck


At 12:53 PM 5/5/2005, jonathan.wilson wrote:
>Replacing an old Samba 2.2.2 server with a newer Samba version, and would 
>like to set the SID to the same as the old server. However, 2.2.2
doesn't
>have the 'net' utilities or anything else that I can find to display
the
>SID. Anyone have any hints?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan Wilson
>
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jonathan.wilson [jonathan.wilson@odl.com] wrote:
>
>Replacing an old Samba 2.2.2 server with a newer Samba version, and
>would like to set the SID to the same as the old server. However,
>2.2.2 doesn't have the 'net' utilities or anything else that I
can
>find to display the SID. Anyone have any hints?
 
A simple thing to do is to copy original "tdb" database. With some
caution applied it is also quite safe.

When doing so please make sure that both instances are stopped. There
might be some differences in filesystem location of the backend files.
Do something like "dpkg -L" or "rpm -ql".

Cheers,

-- 
Michal Kurowski
<michal@poczta.gazeta.pl>