[K12OSN] Re-sent: Upgrade from K12LTSP 4.2 to 4.4.1 how to transfer SMBLDAPinfo

[Mark Gumprecht]

I have not done this either.....but Brian wrote this for setting up the 
slave.
http://www.chivers.info/Samba3-OpenLDAP-slave-server-config.html

Mark

Quentin Hartman wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:28 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
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>>I currently have a K12LTSP 4.2 system running with SMBLDAP providing
>>authentication and homes users on LTSP client computers and windows
>>machines.
>>I decided I wanted to try out Crossover Office 5 (but not on the current
>>production server), so I have installed K12LTSP 4.4.1 on a new box and
>>installed Crossover Office 5. What do I have to do now to set up SMBLDAP and
>>transfer all the user authentication info to this new box so it can become
>>the official new server and I can use the other server for other purposes.
>>I have gigabit connection between the servers, so copying files is pretty
>>quick.
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>I'm hardly an SMBLDAP expert, but my best guess would be to setup the
>new box as you did the old box, but make the new box an ldap slave to
>the old box and let ldap do all the replication of user data itself.
>Once that's done and you're convinced it works, shut down the old ldap
>server and "promote" the slave box to being stand-alone and change the
>smbldap configs accordingly.
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>Note that I've never *actually done* any of the above, but it seems like
>it ought to work. In theory, anyway.
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Mark Gumprecht
Data Systems Specialist
MSAD3
Unity, ME
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