From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 05:47:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7682F16A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:47:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhost.frm2.tum.de (mailhost.frm2.tum.de [129.187.179.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DF143DD0 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:47:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Joerg.Pulz@frm2.tum.de) Received: from localhost (mailhost.frm2.tum.de [129.187.179.12]) by mailhost.frm2.tum.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4I5lGqj061642; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:47:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jpulz@frm2.tum.de) Received: from hades.admin.frm2 (hades.admin.frm2 [172.25.1.10]) by mailhost.frm2.tum.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4I5lF2O061638 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 18 May 2005 07:47:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jpulz@frm2.tum.de) Received: from hades.admin.frm2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hades.admin.frm2 (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4I5lFnK022019; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:47:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jpulz@frm2.tum.de) Received: (from jpulz@localhost) by hades.admin.frm2 (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j4I5lE6N022018; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:47:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jpulz) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:47:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Pulz To: Roger Merritt In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20050518093631.00b93ec0@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: <20050518074156.P2531@hades.admin.frm2> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20050518093631.00b93ec0@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: at mailhost.frm2.tum.de cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from Samba 2 to Samba 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 05:47:23 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 May 2005, Roger Merritt wrote: > I've just become aware that samba.org is no longer supporting Samba 2 (which > has served me well for so long) and I should upgrade to Samba 3, which is now > the stable version. I don't find any warnings about it in > /usr/ports/UPDATING. Does anyone have any gotchas I should be aware of? Hi, you should definitely take a look into the official Samba-3 HOWTO. http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf there is a separate part about migration and updating. you should also read about the "Account Information Databases" in part-III/chapter 10, as this is importand to reuse your old smbpasswd or passdb.tdb file. good luck ;-) Joerg - -- The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCitbiSPOsGF+KA+MRAhAqAJoCVyfh4ncLnS9S5ZK7/qgXSr8CYwCdF8Iw fr/opIoZLDrtZ6tjUWRKdtI= =67og -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----