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Hi, is there a HOWTO about migrating from Samba TNG to Samba 2.2? I have problems with the user profiles on the Windows client machines, they are recreated on login on the new Samba (2.2.5) machine. I copied the SID (with smbpasswd), /etc/passwd and smbpasswd to the new machine, and everything works fine, except for the user profiles. Currently we are not using server-saved profile, but we will

Hello, I have inherited a samba-tng PDC (without ldap) that I am to upgrade to samba 3. My first attempt failed miserably. I copied over the smbpasswd and the domain SID, users were able to log in, but most were not able to load their profiles. I think I have to copy over machine IDs, but I'm not sure how to proceed. The migration section of the the howto doesn't seem to apply to

...was the better for now as we have 700 users and 150 Win2k systems. It really would have been nice if the two samba camps could have co-ordinated on this, unless there are other reasons for the difference that I don't know about. Might I suggest that a parameter be added to samba to allow the RID_MULTIPLIER to be set in smb.conf? PS If anyone needs a recipe to modify permissions and user profiles to work with changed RIDs email me as we managed to work that out before working out the formula change. Tom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Crummey, Sys...

Gerry, all: HELP! On mandriva, I compiled samba from source and got it running, but I cannot connect from windows. (see my post from earlier "[Samba] Compiling and Configuring Samba for Mandrival") I think this relates to the group/SID changes discussed in the release notes. However, I'm not smart enough to figure it out. The tarball compiled and installed fine. It