[lug] best way to move samba shares to a new server

[David L. Willson]

Careful about that.  I'd selectively copy lines from passwd, shadow, and  
group if it were up to me.

Also need the Samba users and smb.conf.

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-----Original message-----
From: Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com>
To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"  
<lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Sat, Dec 31, 2011 18:25:56 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [lug] best way to move samba shares to a new server

Oh, and don't forget that you'll need the same passwd, shadow, and group 
files on both servers.

Dan

On 12/31/2011 10:06 AM, Brian Stiff wrote:
> Hi folks-
>
> I've an Ubuntu Hardy machine that I'm using as a CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI  
server for my home LAN.  I set the server up in a hurry about a year ago to  
replace an ailing QNAP NAS (it worked great, I couldn't have been happier  
with it, until one of the ethernet ports died, three weeks out of warranty).  
 I spent a fair amount of time setting up various CIFS shares and sorting  
out the CIFS and Unix permissions to my liking.
>
> I've finally gotten around to setting up a longer-term solution, and I'd  
like to move the Samba share structure en masse to the new machine, and  
maintain the various permissions.  I've not had good luck issuing the right  
Google search to find guidance on the best way to accomplish this in bash or  
using Webmin; both servers are headless, and I didn't install X on either.
>
> I'd appreciate all y'all's (no, I'm not from Texas) suggestions and  
thoughts on the best way to move/copy the files, while maintaining the  
permissions.
>
> Thanks,
> B
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