There's no MACHINE.SID anymore...

Volker
(This used to be commit e9cd8fb2e3104e1f9fd27277c90e1d09e55a0cf4)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-BDC-HOWTO.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-BDC-HOWTO.sgml
index 53a0959c39..7653e3d1c0 100644
--- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-BDC-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/Samba-BDC-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -157,10 +157,17 @@ Several things have to be done:
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-The file private/MACHINE.SID identifies the domain. When a samba
-server is first started, it is created on the fly and must never be
-changed again. This file has to be the same on the PDC and the BDC,
-so the MACHINE.SID has to be copied from the PDC to the BDC.
+The domain SID has to be the same on the PDC and the BDC. This used to
+be stored in the file private/MACHINE.SID. This file is not created
+anymore since Samba 2.2.5 or even earlier. Nowadays the domain SID is
+stored in the file private/secrets.tdb. Simply copying the secrets.tdb
+from the PDC to the BDC does not work, as the BDC would
+generate a new SID for itself and override the domain SID with this
+new BDC SID.</para>
+
+<para>
+To retrieve the domain SID from the PDC or an existing BDC and store it in the
+secrets.tdb, execute 'net rpc getsid' on the BDC.
 </para></listitem>
 
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