Yes you can copy them over... in fact, if you have NT or Win 2k clients, you need to copy them over so that the SID for the domain remains the same. I think they may have change the location of the files at some point though. smb.conf used to be under /etc and sometime either later with 7.3 or 8.0 they moved it to /etc/samba and consolidated the passwd and MACHINE_SID files. - Herman On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Stuart Powell wrote: ->Hello, everyone. -> ->I have a new server at home and will be migrating from the old to the ->new over the coming couple of weeks. One thing that bothers me though ->is the prospect of moving the Samba PDC from one machine to the other. ->The old server is running SuSE 7.3, the new one has 8.1. -> ->Moving the files is no problem, but I'm concerned about the Samba ->config and the files containing user and machine passwords. Is it ->possible to copy these files over to the new server and have the new ->version of Samba just pick up where the old one left off ? Do I have to ->recreate the domain on the new server, and have the machines rejoin the ->domain and validate against the new server ? -> ->If anyone knows of a howto for this, that would be great. I don't mind ->trying a bit of trial and error myself to get it working, but if anyone ->has already been through this and can offer some useful pointers, that ->would be terrific. -> ->Thanks, ->Stuart. -> ->