[Samba] Old domain name an't delete record with tdbtool

Sascha Bieler sascha.bieler at radiogong.de
Mon May 31 21:09:39 GMT 2004


Don't no much about this topic, just a hint...

I had to change my domain too, also with windows servers and this is the 
normal behaviour. It's a kind of windows caching. If u wait a bit the name of 
the old domain is away from network neighborhood...

Regards 

Sascha


Am Montag, 31. Mai 2004 15:54 schrieb Keith Edmunds:
> Samba V3, tdbsam backend.
>
> I've had to change the workgroup name in smb.conf on a Samba PDC (ie, I've
> changed the domain name). However, the old domain name still shows up in
> Windows PCs' "Microsoft Windows Network" (together with the new name, which
> works just fine). I want to remove the old domain name, and I assume it is
> still showing because it is still present in secrets.tdb. A "tdbdump
> secrets.tdb" shows (actual domain names changed):
>
> key = "SECRETS/SID/OLDNAME"
> data =
> [deleted]
>
> key = "SECRETS/SID/NEWNAME"
> data =
> [deleted]
>
> So I tried to remove the old name with tdbtool:
>
> $ tdbtool secrets.tdb
> tdb> delete SECRETS/SID/OLDNAME
> delete failed
> tdb> delete "SECRETS/SID/OLDNAME"
> delete failed
> tdb>
>
> Some questions:
>
> 1. Is the reason that the old domain name is showing because it is in
> secrets.tdb?
> 2. Is deleting it from secrets.tdb the right way to remove it?
> 3. How do I delete it?
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions -
> K.


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