[Samba] join samba to himself

[Rowland Penny]

On 18/04/14 10:40, Jeremy wrote:
>
> On 18/04/2014 11:10, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 18/04/14 09:52, Jeremy wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have joined my only samba server to himself (net join -U 
>>> Administrator) and restart samba.
>>
>> When you say 'samba server' are you referring to samba 4.x running in 
>> AD mode? if so, you do not join it to itself, it is done for you when 
>> you provision.
> Yes, it's a samba 4.X in AD.
>>
>>>
>>> Now, I can see process when I enter samba-tool processes but the 
>>> processes are not be working/visibles with "ps -aux".
>>>
>>> The DNS service is no more working (and it's the same for the other 
>>> services : AD/time, ...)
>>>
>>> samba-tool dns serverinfo server
>>>
>>> ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - (-1073741772,
>>> 'NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND')
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
>>> line 175, in _run
>>>     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py", line
>>> 703, in run
>>>     dns_conn = dns_connect(server, self.lp, self.creds)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py", line 37,
>>> in dns_connect
>>>     dns_conn = dnsserver.dnsserver(binding_str, lp, creds)
>>>
>>> Is there a solution to rebuild/restart the dns or should I use my 
>>> backup ?
>>
>> If you have a backup from before you 'joined' the server to itself, 
>> use that, if not move everything (private & sysvol dirs, smb.conf 
>> etc) out of the way and re-provision.
> Any other idea to rollback ? I would like to repare the db files and 
> don't rejoin computers.

I don't think that you have much choice, I think that you have corrupted 
your AD by doing the join, but as I have never done what you have done, 
I am not sure that it can be repaired.

Anybody else know if it can be repaired ???

Rowland

>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
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