Testing Samba4 vampire

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:49 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
> > Currently, our Samba4 'vampire' and DRS replication code is not well
> > tested.  We do conduct regular manual testing, but frankly nothing beats
> > an automated test - even of Samba4 to Samba4.
> > 
> > In the 'vampire-test-wip' branch in my git repository (and in my recent
> > commits to master), you will find the work I've done to try and make
> > this work.
> > 
> > git://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba.git vampire-test-wip
> > 
> > There are many bugs and quandaries - why do NET-API-* tests fail when we
> > have the vampired DC, but not otherwise?
> 
> The last time I've tried your branch, the replication was failing
> (the 2nd dc wasn't able to get a rid set). And the NET-API-* tests
> connect to any dc and fail to create users against the 2nd dc.
> 
> > Why do we, despite all the work
> > to update the schema, still get schema errors in the DRS server?
> > 
> > If you have the time or inclination, please do try a 'make test' in that
> > branch, and see if you can help find these bugs. 
> 
> We don't correctly handle the case where we need to first replicate the
> schema partition before we can replicate the other partitions.

Thanks for the heads-up.  

Tridge and Kamen: Can you look into this?  I think I've gone as far as I
can reasonably go on this at the moment, and it looks like this requires
some pretty major work on the DRS server. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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