I've been looking throught the archives for a set of things to be done to migrate a install with samba 3.2.5 (lenny) to another server (wheezy) I can cope with the name change, that's no problem, but I'd like to avoid having to recreate the users on the new server, so far I tried this, without much success - scp the smb.conf to the new server - make hot backups cd /var/lib/samba tdbbackup *.tdb - scp the backups to the new server - restore the tbd in the new server tdbrestore account_policy.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/account_policy.tdb.bak tdbrestore ntdrivers.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/ntdrivers.tdb.bak tdbrestore ntforms.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/ntforms.tdb.bak tdbrestore ntprinters.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/ntprinters.tdb.bak tdbrestore passdb.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/passdb.tdb.bak tdbrestore registry.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/registry.tdb.bak tdbrestore secrets.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/secrets.tdb.bak tdbrestore share_info.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/share_info.tdb.bak tdbrestore winbindd_idmap.tdb < /tmp/backup_dir/winbindd_idmap.tdb.bak -sincronize system users and groups (basically done with https://support.rbtechvt.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/38) - tried to dump the source server as a tdbsam (output is not filled) # pdbedit -e tdbsam:/tmp/dump export_database: username="(NULL)" tdbsam_open: Converting version 0 database to version 3. TDBSAM converted successfullyusers with - tried again exporting as smbpasswd (got more nonsense) export_database: username="(NULL)" getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :) getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :) build_sam_pass: Failing attempt to store user with non-uid based user RID. getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :) getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :) mod_smbfilepwd_entry: malformed password entry (no :) getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :) getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :) mod_smbfilepwd_entry: malformed password entry (no :) I am probably missing something, can anyone give me a pointer for a straighforward migration? Any help appreciated, Joan