Chapter 30. Upgrading from Samba-2.x to Samba-3.0.0

Jelmer R. Vernooij

The Samba Team

25 October 2002

Table of Contents

Charsets
Obsolete configuration options
Password Backend

Charsets

You might experience problems with special characters when communicating with old DOS clients. Codepage support has changed in samba 3.0. Read the chapter Unicode support for details.

Obsolete configuration options

In 3.0, the following configuration options have been removed.

printer driver (replaced by new driver procedures)
printer driver file (replaced by new driver procedures)
printer driver location (replaced by new driver procedures)
use rhosts
postscript
client code page (replaced by dos charset)
vfs path
vfs options

Password Backend

Effective with the release of samba-3 it is now imperative that the password backend be correctly defined in smb.conf.

Those migrating from samba-2.x with plaintext password support need the following: passdb backend = guest.

Those migrating from samba-2.x with encrypted password support should add to smb.conf passdb backend = smbpasswd, guest.

LDAP using Samba-2.x systems can continue to operate with the following entry passdb backend = ldapsam_compat, guest.