I have a RH7.3 machine running Samba 2.2.7a as a domain controller, both the OS and Samba desperately need upgrading, along with the hard drives replaced with a new larger RAID5 array. This being a production server, instead of trying to upgrade everything and migrate to the new drives, I have decided to start from scratch using the new drives and Centos3 as the OS along with a fresh install of the latest stable Samba release. At least this way the old drives are untouched and I can boot back to them minimising network interuption whilst I build the new OS and Samba server?

My questions is, whats required to migrate our current Samba configuration to the new system? I know the first thing to do will be install the server and then copy the smb.conf across. But I have a feeling that doing this will mean I will have re-join all the machines to the domain?(Not a huge problem, we only have 25-30 network clients)

I'm looking for some pointers/suggestions on the best approach to doing this whilst minimising the amount of reconfiguration I will need to do?

Cheers....

No you do not have to rejoin domain again, you can copy the secrets.tdb file over to new box as it contains all the sids (machine trust accounts).

Infact you should copy all the contents of /etc/samba/* to new box. Also copy your /etc/passwd, /etc/group & /etc/shadow files to get exact user & groups hierarchy over to new box.

You do not need anything else, i have done that successfully.

Cheers.

Cheers, thanks for that info, I'll give it go.