samba - Feb 2025 - How to safely rejoin an upgraded linux domain member?

Am 27.02.2025 um 19:58 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:04:18 +0000
> Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> The leave / join process of a samba server is straight forward and
>> should give no grief.
>>
>> Build the new server, sync the data with rsync -AXavz (will preserve
>> all xattr) from old to new (with old server running and in ops) also
>> sync the smb.conf file. I understand shares will be equal if not
>> update smb.conf. On transition day advise of downtime, do a final
>> rsync (should be quick).
>>
>> Stop samba, remove smb.conf and power off old server.
>>
>> Join the new server with same name. Users should not notice the
> I would think the only possible way of anything noticing is if the
> computers SID is used in a search. Even though everything is the same,
> leaving the domain and joining again will mean the computer being
> treated as a new machine with a new SID.
>
> Rowland
Ok, thank you both very much for confirming, that is what I thought. 
Maybe we could write this down somewhere in the wiki. I once had access, 
I think,? but need to dig for the credentials.

Regards, Jakob

Like so ?

http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:upgrade-file-server

Feedback appreciated
On 28 Feb 2025 at 08:08 +0000, Jakob Curdes via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org>, wrote:
>
> Am 27.02.2025 um 19:58 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:04:18 +0000
> > Luis Peromarta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > The leave / join process of a samba server is straight
forward and
> > > > should give no grief.
> > > >
> > > > Build the new server, sync the data with rsync -AXavz (will
preserve
> > > > all xattr) from old to new (with old server running and in
ops) also
> > > > sync the smb.conf file. I understand shares will be equal if
not
> > > > update smb.conf. On transition day advise of downtime, do a
final
> > > > rsync (should be quick).
> > > >
> > > > Stop samba, remove smb.conf and power off old server.
> > > >
> > > > Join the new server with same name. Users should not notice
the
> > I would think the only possible way of anything noticing is if the
> > computers SID is used in a search. Even though everything is the same,
> > leaving the domain and joining again will mean the computer being
> > treated as a new machine with a new SID.
> >
> > Rowland
>
> Ok, thank you both very much for confirming, that is what I thought.
> Maybe we could write this down somewhere in the wiki. I once had access,
> I think,? but need to dig for the credentials.
>
> Regards, Jakob
>
>
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