Transferring your Samba3-NT4 to a new host

The following operations are performed with the root account.

  • Stop the samba service with systemctl stop smb.

  • Dump the contents of your directory with slapcat > ldap_dump.ldif.

  • Recover the files /etc/slapd/, /etc/samba/, /etc/libnss* and /var/lib/samba/.

  • Install the new machine with a basic Debian Buster 64bit by following this documentation.

  • Install the following packages on the new machine:

    apt-get install slapd samba libnss-ldap

  • On the new host, copy back the four previously saved files.

  • Reintegrate the LDAP database:

    systemctl stop slapd
rm -Rf /var/lib/ldap/*
slapadd -f /root/ldap_dump.ldif
chown -R openldap:openldap /var/lib/ldap