[Samba] clarify issues on joining Samba PDC, machines, RIDs,

[John H Terpstra]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, jonlists wrote:

> John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org> wrote on 11/06/2003 04:00:54 PM:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, jonlists wrote:
> [snip other issued resolved - thank you very much]
> >
> > >
> > > - If someone goes in and deletes the unix user - say "jimmy" without
> using
> > > pdbedit or the samba tools, pdbedit later complains that "jimmy" no
> longer
> > > exists, but will not allow me to delete him using "pdbedit -r". How
> can I
> > > clean this up so that "jimmy" can be fixed - I'm not finding any info
> on
> > > how to rebuild or fix the samba information. (Administration of this
> > > system will be turned over to someone else, and I need to be sure I
> can
> > > help them fix if they do this).
> >
> > Add to your smb.conf [globals]
> >    passdb backend = tdbsam smbpasswd
> >
> > Run:
> >    pdbedit -i tdbsam -e smbpasswd
> >
> I get the error...
> Unable to open/create TDB passwd
> Can't sampwent!

Try adding root with smbpasswd:

	smbpasswd -a root

If that fails you have real issues! :)
If it works, then try the migration process again.

>
> I have to believe I'm missing a required package, or is this all installed
> w/samba 3.0?
>
> > Edit your the smbpasswd file to remove the dead entries.
> > Remove the passdb.tdb file.
> >
> > Run:
> >    pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam
> >
> > Edit smb.conf to have:
> >
> >    passdb backend = tdbsam
> >
> > Delete the smbpasswd file.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> >
> > - John T.
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
>
> Other naive question (I'm trying to RTFM, but I'm running out of time) -
> where can I find info on whether or not I need to add scripts to smb.conf
> for using tdbsam backend?

Sure do need the scripts for tdbsam.

- John T.

>
> Thanks for the pointers on tdbsam - shouldn't have overlooked that one.
>
>
> Jon Johnston
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>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org