Upgrade from S3 to a Samba4 DC [with LDAPSAM]

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Sep 19 13:24:25 MDT 2011


Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>:
> Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>:
>> Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
>>> Quoting Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
>>>> The command has also been renamed in preparation for the Samba 4.0 alpha
>>>> 17 release, it is now 'samba domain samba3upgrade'.
>>> I'm puzzled by how to read that.  Does that mean I use the "samba"  
>>> program to invoke the upgrade?  After a git pull the previous  
>>> upgrade script is gone;  but the syntax to get the same  
>>> functionality doesn't seem obvious.
>>> /opt/s4/sbin/samba domain samba3upgrade --help
>>> doesn't provide any insight.
>> Ah ha!  You meant "samba-tool domain samba3upgrade"
> smbclient --version
> Version 4.0.0alpha18-GIT-fa5475e
> This works, with one bug.  It doesn't generate an Administrator  
> password (which the previous script would auto-generate one).
> $ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/s4/bin:/opt/s4/sbin
> $ samba-tool domain samba3upgrade --libdir=/tmp/x /tmp/x/smb.conf
> ....
> Server Role:           domain controller
> Hostname:              BARBEL
> NetBIOS Domain:        BACKBONE
> DNS Domain:            micore.us
> DOMAIN SID:            S-1-5-21-2037442776-**************
> Admin password:        None  <<<< ????
> Importing WINS database
> Importing Account policy
> ....
> Which then leaves me puzzled how to set an administrator password.
> "samba-tool domain samba3upgrade --help" doesn't mention a parameter  
> to predetermine one.
> "samba-tool user password --username=administrator" prompts for a  
> password.  Entering a blank password doesn't seem to explicitly fail  
> but the operation fails with -
> ERROR: Failed to change password : Connection to SAMR pipe of PDC of  
> domain 'BACKBONE' failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

linux-hvej:~ # samba-tool domain samba3upgrade --libdir=/tmp/x  
--adminpass=somepassword /tmp/x/smb.conf
Usage: samba-tool domain samba3upgrade [options] <samba3_smb_conf>

samba-tool: error: no such option: --adminpass




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