samba4 in a w2k8r2 subdomain

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Tue Apr 19 02:33:27 MDT 2011


Hi Pavel,

> I am testing samba4 as a DC in win2k8r2 environment, and I have found a 
> serious bug concerning subdomains.
> 
> at least samba-tool (more precisely fsmo and domainlevel, probably more, 
> including samba) assume that CN=Configuration is a child of whatever comes of 
> sambd.domain_dn(), which is wrong.
> in my case samdb.domain_dn() returns "DC=HERRMANN,DC=VIRTLAB,DC=INT", while 
> CN=Configuration is a child of the root domain, "DC=VIRTLAB,DC=INT". The root 
> domain seems to be listed as 'rootDomainNamingContext' attribute of RootDSE 
> (in "ADSI edit" in windows, no idea where that translates in samdb/ldb)
> 
> 
> probably related to this, when running samba it eats all my CPU and just logs 
> "RID Manager failed RID allocation - WERR_BADFILE - extended_ret[0x0]" once in 
> a while. (joining works fine)
> 
> anyone knows the right place to fix this?

Samba4 can only handle one domain in the forest currently,
because we don't support phantom objects in our database.

metze

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