What I noticed while I migrated to a VM Centos 5.5 from a real machine. Be
aware to not use the pdc as time server. I never succeeded to
make this work. Meanwhile I am back to a real machine. IN my oppinion VM
in this case is nuts
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:03:11 +0400, "henri" <ciradhb.forward at
laposte.net>
wrote:> Hi all (and best wishes for the new year to everyone :-) )
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> I have currently a Samba 3.5.6 server that acts as a PDC and print
Server,> with tdbsam backend, no LDAP at all.
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> In a very next future, I will have to migrate samba to a new server (a
VM> actually).
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> This migration will have to be seamless for all users (more than 200
user> accounts with more than 200 PC in the domain).
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> The technical constraints will be :
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> - migration from Readhat 9.0 to Centos 5.5
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> - the DNS name of the new server will change
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> - the IP address of the new server will change (but still in the same
> network)
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> - the samba server netbios name (which is currently the same as the
machine> DNS name) will have to be changed
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> - everything else should remain the same : domain name , shares, home
> directory, domain admin account, ... , the netlogon scripts can be
adapted> if necessary
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> My objectives are that after migration :
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> 1) All PC that are currently joined to the domain will stay in the
domain >
> 2) All users will keep their SID and thus their original sessions on
their> PC
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> What is the best way to proceed ?
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> I guess that just moving all the samba configuration files to the new
> machine will not be enough.
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> Thanks in advance for your help.
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> Henri