[CentOS] Migration from FC3 to Centos4.4 gives problems with Samba

Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net
Sun Apr 15 20:42:29 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:31 +0200, Theo Band wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have updated one of my servers from Fedora Core 3 to Centos. All
> services run fine except Samba. The Centos installation is fresh and I
> setup Samba in a similar way as I did before with Fedora. I copied the
> samba password file from the Fedora installation and also all
> user+machine accounts to the /etc/passwd|shadow etc.
> 
> Problem I now have is that clients cannot find their server profiles
> when they try to logon (bath owner rights, or profile is unavailable).
> After some trial I found out that I can solve this issue by removing the
> XP client computer form the domain and then adding the client computer
> again. So it looks to me that the client machine is not seen properly by
> Samba. Is there a way to copy information from the old installation to
> the new Centos installation so that I don't have to re-join every
> individual computer to the domain again? Or is there a way I can do this
> with Samba?
> 

It seems you're using flat files and not openldap as backend. Is this
machine a PDC ? It seems so because you've copied machines/users
accounts on the newer box. But i don't see in your migration that you've
copied the secrets.tdb file. This one is really important because it
contains the domain SID . So if you've only copied smbpasswd (in old
format or the newer one in tdb format but that doesn't matter), that
means you're running a new domain controller for a new domain ...
usually i copy the whole /etc/samba dir from one machine to the newer
one in such migration ...

-- 

Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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