Moving from beta/test environment to production

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:46 +0100, Dieter Modig wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> I hope you all got a well deserved rest during the holidays! :) 
> 
> We decided this would be a good time to upgrade to the official Samba4
> release. Everything but GPOs seem to be working after the upgrade. We
> don't see any difference in the behaviour :( Can't create new GPO but
> can edit the existing ones. Attempt to create a GPO with samba-tool
> gave the following error "ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception -
> (-1073741565, 'NT_STATUS_NOT_A_DIRECTORY')". 
> 
> We gathered from previous responses to this thread that attempting to
> get another DC as master was not likely to succeed. Is there any way
> to revert to default with policies and get a fresh start? We can
> export the GPO:s we have today and then scrap them all and reset all
> permissions on files and database. Would that be a viable solution? 

What happens if you do exactly that with the windows group policy tool?

Have you already run 'samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset'?

Is there any more detail in the logs?

Andrew Bartlett

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