[Samba] Re-establishing a Samba 2.2.1a domain controller after major "crash"

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Lasse Taul Bjerre wrote:

>
>
> I've now, stopped samba, removed all the files in /etc/samba/, restored them
> from the backup, and started samba again. And It had absolutly no effect.
> The "Trust Relationship" between the workstaions and the server is still
> gone :(
> Guess there is no way out of it, I have to rejoin all the workstations :(
>
> On the upside, samba 2.2.6 seems faster than 2.2.1a - and it compiled
> without any problems what so ever :)
>
> Is there a place i can find a list of major differences, and feature
> enhancements between 2.2.1a and 2.2.6?

In the root directory of the samba sources for 2.2.6 you will find
WHATSNEW.txt - suggest you look there.

- John T.

>
> /Lasse
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Andrew Bartlett
> Sent: 26. oktober 2002 01:24
> To: Lasse Taul Bjerre
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Re-establishing a Samba 2.2.1a domain controller
> after major "crash"
>
>
> Lasse Taul Bjerre wrote:
> >
> > Our Samba 2.2.1a domain controller suffered a major disk error the other
> > day. The partition with /etc and /dev died. :(
> > I?ve now reinstalled SuSE 7.3, and re-established the UNIX password files
> > (passwd, group, shadow) from backup, further more I?ve re-established the
> > files from /etc/samba (MACHINE.SID, groups.mapping, lmhosts, machine.sid,
> > secrets.tdb, smb.conf, smbpasswd, smbusers).
> >
> > All my shares are up and running and the users can log on to the server,
> and
> > they can map the shares. The only, but major, problem I experiences is:
> The
> > workstations has lost the ?thrust? to the domain controller. If I check
> the
> > /etc/samba/smbpasswd file the ?Machine Trust Account? exists. Have I
> missed
> > a file or something, or is it just not possible to re-establish a domain
> > controller via the config files?
> >
> > ANY help is MUCH appreciated, this is a domain with 250 computers, and so
> > going around and rejoining all the computers is to time consuming. And I
> > would really like to have the system back online Monday morning.
>
> Ensure that you copy across *all* the mentioned files, and before you
> start smbd.  Also, ensure you must use exactly the same hostname.  If
> you have the misfortune to start smbd without the old secrets.tdb in
> place, or the hostname changed, it will regenerate the SID, causing this
> problem.
>
> > Further more, I plan to upgrade to 2.2.6 ASAP (when I've solved the Trust
> > issue) Is this a good version or should I use an older version like 2.2.5
> > or??
>
> 2.2.6 is a 'good' version, as far as we can tell :-).
>
> (The pre and RC releases cleaned out quite a number of nice little
> bugs).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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John H Terpstra
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