[K12OSN] Re: LDAP rebuild question (dahopkins at comcast.net)

[Matt Oquist]

> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:08:16 +0000
> From: dahopkins at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] LDAP rebuild question
> 
> Can someone explain what ./smbldap -t bdc will do in the smbldap-installer script?  What I am thinking is to start a BDC/LDAP on my ldap-server-to-be.  Then, turn off the existing server and promote the BDC to a PDC by changing a few of the settings in the conf files.  Hopefully this will solve the issue with the profiles not loading correctly.  If this is a really-bad-idea, please let me know.  My naive approach to just migrate the server approach (based on the Samba 3 text) just isn't working.

I can try. ;) It's been a while since I looked at it, though...

As http://www.vcsvikings.org/docuwiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/replication
explains, the script is doing almost exactly what Terpstra describes
in chapter 6 of Samba 3 By Example. So your BDC is hosting its own
replicated LDAP database, and the samba instance on your BDC is
referring to ldap://localhost... for its data.

I've never done a promotion myself, but there's no reason I know of
that it shouldn't work.

If you do it and it works, please add your experience to the
documentation wiki so others can benefit as well. :)

Good luck!

--matt

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Open Source Software Engineering Consultant
http://majen.net/
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