'net vampire' does not work with standard build for me

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Wed Apr 21 04:16:17 MDT 2010


Hi Bernd,

 >   File "/opt/samba/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/netcmd/vampire.py",
 > line 51, in run
 >     (domain_name, domain_sid) = net.vampire(domain=domain,
 > target_dir=target_dir)
 > TypeError: argument 2 must be string, not None
 > 
 > So the options for net vampire changed on the way? On my previous
 > attempts the was on option --realm now it wants --target-dir
 > I assume this is the directory where database files shall be stored?

I fixed that in git master today.

 > "/opt/samba/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line
 > 99, in _run
 >     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
 >   File "/opt/samba/lib/python2.4/site-packages/samba/netcmd/vampire.py",
 > line 51, in run
 >     (domain_name, domain_sid) = net.vampire(domain=domain,
 > target_dir=target_dir)
 > RuntimeError: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER

I've fixed that one too.

sorry for all these bugs. There has been a rush of development lately,
and we don't yet have automated testing of net vampire. It took us a
few days to notice the breakage.

 > Another bad thing I found when I put the new build into service (Version
 > 4.0.0alpha12-GIT-c293359 with your patch) was that the Users
 > administration on my windows client was missing a number of tab, when
 > editing accounts. Most notably the account and profile tabs were
 > missing. So there must be something else that is not quite right.

can you retry with the current tree?

Cheers, Tridge


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