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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Networking => Topic started by: Neil Waldhauer on February 18, 2017, 09:48:46 pm

Title: Copying SAMBA users and groups
Post by: Neil Waldhauer on February 18, 2017, 09:48:46 pm
If I have a SAMBA server, and I want to migrate to new hardware, how can I transfer my users and groups from the old server to the new one?
Title: Re: Copying SAMBA users and groups
Post by: Paul Smedley on February 18, 2017, 09:58:09 pm
Hi Neil,

If I have a SAMBA server, and I want to migrate to new hardware, how can I transfer my users and groups from the old server to the new one?

From memory, %unixroot%\etc - master.passwd pwd.db spwd.db groups

There may be other files, but they should all have a similar timestamp...

Cheers,

Paul
Title: Re: Copying SAMBA users and groups
Post by: Herwig Bauernfeind on February 20, 2017, 07:08:53 am
While Pauls comment is right, it omits the essential /samba/private directory.

I d suggest to use the builtin archive feature of b4smb.cmd - look into this file, it has a feature to take a complete Samba configuration snapshot upon each start.

The complete config is saved into a ZIP file, ready to be unzipped in a new environement.

In case the new server resides in a different place, make sure to change the paths in smb.conf accordingly.

Hope it helps,
Herwig
Title: Re: Copying SAMBA users and groups
Post by: Neil Waldhauer on February 20, 2017, 06:47:18 pm
Thanks Paul and Herwig. I looked at b4smb.cmd, and it lacks the groups file, and backs up a few files that look extraneous, like *.pid. It looks like a great start for a backup/restore script.

I can see the backups on my system. I had not known they were there.