Just in the process of setting up a nethserver fileserver and so far I’m really happy with how it’s going however my main reason for this is to migrate away from several windows server 2008 machines.
I’ve copied over the files foilders using current settings but once all done and i’ve finsihed setting I’d like to replace the existing windows server install completely using the same samba netbios name.
How can I achieve this do I need to disconnect from the domain change host/ netbios name and then reconnect or is there another way?
The users are exported but you’ll loose the original passwords (they are set to random ones).
After reinstallation of the account provider you may want to import the users:
No I’m using a remote accounts provider primarily because the AD domain is still in use and I’m susing that to sync files with the original fileserver prior to de-commissioning.
TBH it’s a bit of a bind as I’d like to replace the two windows DCs with nethserver as well but am struggling to do this because the domain is pretty much always in use making a piecemeal solution the easiest if not necessarily the best solution.
This way the users are synced by AD but as this method is experimental it may crash your existing AD.
I recommend following steps:
Backup your infrasctructure !!!
Recreate the users in a local AD on the Nethserver. You may export the users/groups from Windows and import them.to Nethserver.
Sync the (user) data from Windows Server to Nethserver.
Join a test client machine to the Nethserver and check if it works.
Migrate all machines and resync data.
Use Nethserver hotsync to have a failover DC in case of failure.
This seems hardly possible because the data is partly on Windows and on Nethserver so you’ll need to sync and there may be problems with files changed on both systems.