# 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