Hi - I'm setting up a new Samba PDC here in a 30-person architectural office. The current PDC is running on an older computer and hasn't been updated in a while. The new PDC will be Samba 3.4.0 running on Ubuntu 9.10. We don't use roaming profiles. My question is this - is there a way to "seamlessly" migrate the desktops to the new PDC from the old one without having to move or copy all their profile data? In other words, to have the desktops "see" the new PDC as the old PDC? Any information anyone can provide (the more detail the better - I don't do this stuff every day) - would be very, very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Greg
Look at, net RPC VAMPIRE Export users, aliases and groups from remote server to local server. You need to run this against the PDC, from a Samba machine joined as a BDC. and net getlocalsid and net setlocalsid On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:11:02 -0700, "Gregory A. Cain" <greg at gregorycain.net> wrote:> Hi - > > I'm setting up a new Samba PDC here in a 30-person architectural office.> The current PDC is running on an older computer and hasn't been > updated in a while. > > The new PDC will be Samba 3.4.0 running on Ubuntu 9.10. We don't use > roaming profiles. > > My question is this - is there a way to "seamlessly" migrate the > desktops to the new PDC from the old one without having to move or copy > all their profile data? In other words, to have the desktops "see" the > new PDC as the old PDC? > > Any information anyone can provide (the more detail the better - I don't> do this stuff every day) - would be very, very much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Greg
Thank you all for this great information. The server is working perfectly now. Greg On 8/30/2010 3:11 PM, Gregory A. Cain wrote:> Hi - > > I'm setting up a new Samba PDC here in a 30-person architectural office. > The current PDC is running on an older computer and hasn't been updated > in a while. > > The new PDC will be Samba 3.4.0 running on Ubuntu 9.10. We don't use > roaming profiles. > > My question is this - is there a way to "seamlessly" migrate the > desktops to the new PDC from the old one without having to move or copy > all their profile data? In other words, to have the desktops "see" the > new PDC as the old PDC? > > Any information anyone can provide (the more detail the better - I don't > do this stuff every day) - would be very, very much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Greg >
Gregory A. Cain wrote:> The new PDC will be Samba 3.4.0 running on Ubuntu 9.10.Odd you would choose to land at 9.10 as 10.04 is a LTS release. I recently upgraded one server from 9.04 to 10.04, with the minor issue that during the 9.10 to 10.04 upgrade winbind ended up getting added. Sincerely, -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/