Hi, I want to migrate file and configuration from one 6.9 Nethserver installation to another identical installation and I would like to know if operation sequence is right (I would like it to be painless for users):
installation server, software, update (ok)
Old server name is “server”, new server name is “server2”.
Old server is PDC, new server is Workstation (for now).
Recreated Shares
Recreated Groups and users
Copy all data in Shares
rename server to serverold
rename server2 to server
set server (ex server2) to PDC
set serverold (ex server) to Workstation
Using this procedure will the clients connect as before without having to reconfigure anything?
The current server has some configuration error (lan, … because of my experiments!) and some problem to update software (In addition to not being virtual). So I take advantage to make a clean installation.
Anyway I have alredy do users, shares and copied data.
What is the problem if clients will have to rejoin new PDC if this have same name of old?
MS join depends on the SID of the domain, not on the domain name itself.
If you change the PDC where clients are joined, you need to rejoin each client by hand.