Reading from "Replacing a Domain Controller" - http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/upgrades.html#id2600749 I am seeking confirmation that this is possible without needing to manually create all user accounts and samba user accounts. Server 1 uses Slackware64 ver. 13.0 with Samba ver. 3.2.xx. New server (Server 2) will use Slackware64 "current" with Samba ver. 3.5.6. I will not be making and configuration changes the smb.conf. I plan on giving Server 2 the same host name, netbios name, and static ip address as Server 1. Is the migration truly as straightforward as copying the following from Server 1 to Server 2: /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group smb.conf secrets.tdb passdb.tdb Server 1 does use tdbsam. Thank you for your guidance.