[K12OSN] Replacing a server

[Brian Chivers]

Mark Cockrell wrote:
> I want to replace my current K12LTSP 4.4.1 box with a new K12LTSP/ 5.0EL 
> box, and I need a little advice.  My current box is our primary 
> authentication server using Samba/LDAP thanks to Matt Oquist's wonderful 
> script.  What's the best way to migrate that data to the new server?  I 
> had planned to just install 5.0EL on the new machine, run the smb-ldap 
> script and then do a slapadd of my most recent backup, but it seems that 
> Matt's script isn't yet ready to handle CentOS 5 or it's K12LTSP 
> derivative.   I'm at a loss as to what I should do.  What do any of you 
> recommend?
> 

I've got 3 Samba / LDAP servers running on CentOS 5, they aren't PDC's as they are running a 
standalone servers with there own slave LDAP's to make them a bit quicker. I could send you over my 
rough notes that I've got if you like, they might give you a start and allow you to run Matt's 
scripts as all the packages would be installed.

Brian Chivers
Portsmouth College

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