Samba PDC Migrations

[hideLUN]

Hi to all Linux-Guru,

I plan to upgrade my old PDC server which on Centos 4.2, samba 3.0.28 to new hardware and new centos 64 bits. Is there a way to migrate all the settings,users, passwords from old samba to the new servers? As there are currently >50 users connected to the samba server and there will be a lot of works if i implement from the scratch. Appreciate for the reply & guideline~ Thank you~

[sri_peregrine]

Migrating a PDC Server

Scenario 1 : You have a separate /home partition

1. While installing new OS format all partitions except /home partition and mount it as /home itself.
2. After installing change to /home directory and list the files.

ll

or

ls -l

3. In the place of owner and group it will be showing UID & GID
4. Create the new users with the same UID and GID, so that all the permissions will be retained.

useradd -u <UID> -g <GID> -d /home/userdir username

5. I hope u can handle rest of the Samba installation stuff..

Scenario 2 : You don't have a separate /home partition

Sorry you have to backup the data to another hard disk and repeat same as scenario 1.


I advice you to backup and restore since CentOS 4.2 has ext2 partition. You can format to most reliable ext4 if you are installing new OS and the restore your /home data from backup.