[Samba] Fetching DOMAIN database Failed

[Guenther Deschner]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:36:35AM +0100, Nobody ist perfect wrote:
> I am trying to migrate our Windows NT 4 Domain to Samba 3.4.3 and got
> the error message below when I run the command:
> 
> "net join -S myPDC -I 172.30.1.1 -U administrator%mypasswd"
> worked ok
> 
> "net rpc vampire -S myPDC -U administrator%mypasswd"
> 
> Fetching DOMAIN database Failed to fetch domain database:
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
> What I want to accomplish is to remove Windows NT 4.0 server as PDC and
> make Samba our Primary Domain Controller.  Looking at Chapter 9
> "Migrating NT 4 Domain to Samba 3" on Samba-3 By Example book that it is
> possible to merge or migrate NT domain to Samba using ldap & smbldap-tools
> 
> Can someone please point me to the right direction.

For vampire of a NT4 PDC you need to join as a BDC first (you did join as
a member workstation/server).

net join BDC -S myPDC -I 172.30.1.1 -U administrator%mypasswd

should do the trick.

Hope that helps,

Guenther

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Günther Deschner                    GPG-ID: 8EE11688
Red Hat                         gdeschner at redhat.com
Samba Team                              gd at samba.org
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