Migration of accounts from Solaris to Linux

[Geoff Dolman]

I've tried this and it didn't work. The route we used instead was
upgrade to samba 3 on the existing platform and then migrate from that
to a new machine with samba on the same revision. Copy over smbpasswd,
machine sid file, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group at minimum -
there may be other samba files you need if you have made nT group
accounts map to unix groups etc.

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:48 +1000, PC Test User wrote:
> I am replacing a Solaris 2.6 server (Ultra 10) with a Dell PowerEdge 2800 
> running RHEL ES 3.  The old server runs samba 2.2.5 and acts as a Windows 
> NT PDC for our domain.  The users log in to their roaming profile form 
> Windows XP computers which have joined the domain as machine clients.  The 
> new server has its own host name but will replace the old server as PDC, 
> authentication server and file server and the old server will be 
> decommissioned.  The new server will run samba 3.0.9.
> 
> I plan to migrate the Unix and samba accounts from the old server to the 
> new server and would like to preserve user and machine names as well as 
> users' passwords in both Unix and samba if I can.
> 
> Has anyone successfully done what I want to do including preserving 
> passwords?  If so, what method did you use?
> 
> Cheers,
> Justin Sashiabel
> 
> 
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