Need urgent help with samba4 DC re-join

[Andreas Oster]

Am 01.08.2012 20:28, schrieb Andreas Oster:
> Am 01.08.2012 15:34, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 23:28 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 13:30 +0200, Andreas Oster wrote:
>>>> Am 18.07.2012 08:03, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
>>>>> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 07:10 +0200, Andreas Oster wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Andrew,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> unfortunately dbcheck did not work. The following error messages showed up:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ERROR: wrong instanceType 11 on DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=novanetwork,DC=loc,
>>>>>> should be 13
>>>>>> ERROR(<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>): uncaught exception -
>>>>>> 'dbcheck' object has no attribute 'modify_instancetype'
>>>>>>   File
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.  I've updated my branch with what I hope will be a fix.  This
>>>>> time I've modified a local DB to replicate your error condition, and
>>>>> confirmed it all works.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, it will only allow the instanceType to be changed, the
>>>>> objectClass can't be fixed yet.  But if you can confirm what I have so
>>>>> far works for you, I'll see what I can do about the rest.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Bartlett
>>>>>
>>>> Hello Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> any news regarding adding some code to dbcheck to fix the objectClass
>>>> issue in my samba4 setup ?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> You have been incredibly patient over the past more than a month on this
>>> issue.  I've not had a chance to look into this properly.  
>>>
>>> As to getting your specific database out of this specific situation,
>>> this might work (on a backup!):
>>>
>>> Run (change for your domain):
>>>
>>>  ldbedit -H
>>> private/sam.ldb.d/DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=SAMBA,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.ldb -s
>>> base -b DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=samba,DC=example,DC=com
>>>
>>> Change the object to have:
>>> dn: DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=samba,DC=example,DC=com
>>> objectClass: top
>>> objectClass: domain
>>> objectClass: domainDNS
>>> description: Microsoft DNS Directory
>>> instanceType: 13
>>
>> Even better would be to use ldbmodify and create a 'replace' ldif, at
>> least on objectClass.  Then re-do the same thing on the sam.ldb (which
>> once the DB is correct, will allow the metadata to be updated). 
>>
>>> Then run:
>>>
>>>  samba-tool dbcheck -H private/sam.ldb --cross-ncs --reindex
>>>  samba-tool dbcheck -H private/sam.ldb --cross-ncs
>>>
>>> This will ensure the indexes and replPropertyMetaData is updated after
>>> this generally NOT RECOMMENDED action of editing the raw database.
>>
>> I don't like suggesting editing the raw backend ldb files, but I do feel
>> I've left you hanging on for a more automated solution for too long
>> now. 
>>
>> Andrew Bartlett
>>
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> changing/adding the objectClass values did work. The only remaining
> difference is the objectCategory. In my setup I have:
> 
> objectCategory: CN=Top,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=novanetwork,DC=loc
> 
> but I think it should be:
> 
> objectCategory:
> CN=Domain-DNS,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=novanetwork,DC=loc
> 
> is this something that needs to be fixed ?
> 
> best regards
> 
> Andreas
> 
Hello Andrew,

can you please tell me how to fix the objectCategory ?

Thank you very much.

best regards

Andreas