Hi! Back on line, finally... but not because of the samba PDC update :-) On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:55:07 +0100, Robert Manfreda <robert.manfreda@ydria-motors.si> wrote:
Next, what to I need to do to move the computers (windows clients)? Just import them as normal users? To both linux main users as well as samba users?
I don't really understand what you mean by "moving the computers" - I guess you mean what about all those accounts that end with $? They are exactly like normal accounts, so just do it the same way.
That's what I meant. And thanks for all the other very helpfull advices. BTW, if I import new users by just appending them to /etc/passwd... do I need to manually create their home dirs? Or will those be automatically created when they first login? What about if they never log in from X, just samba or maybe SSH?
There is one important thing you shoud know about PDC's - every domain controller has a SID number, and you MUST insert this SID into your new Samba installation, otherwise your W2k/XP clients won't be able to login. What version of Samba are you currently running? You can get the SID with smbpasswd command, but I don't remember the correct parameter - consult the docs and manpages.
This is the kind of thing that I was worried about. But what do you exacly mean... do you mean that if I change the PDC to another computer with the same domain name and same server name, then the windows clients will not connect? Is it that the windows clients remember the server and it's unique SID and refuse to connect? I will have the same domain name, but different server (name). So I was thinking that the clients should not have any problems with the server and anything unique about it... I was actually going to try it by creating a test domain and testing the user and workstation transfers in that. After I got everything working, I was going to just change the domain name to the same as currently... and reboot all the clients or something :-) Of course there are lot's of smaller details still before I can actually do the switch (like checking the logon scripts and so on), but I'm going to get started this weekend. -- Hugo.