[Samba] PDC appears to be BDC in server manager

[Martin Brook]

They give me:
$ nmblookup MYDOMAIN#1b
querying MYDOMAIN on nnn.nnn.nnn.255
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn MYDOMAIN<1b>
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn MYDOMAIN<1b>
$ nmblookup MYDOMAIN#1c
querying MYDOMAIN on 143.167.111.255
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn MYDOMAIN<1c>
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn MYDOMAIN<1c>

where nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is the IP address of the PDC. Presumably this is correct.

Martin

On 2/13/07, Michael Gasch <gasch at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
> you're welcome :)
>
> what does nmblookup DOMAIN#1b and DOMAIN#1c give you?
> since everything is working this seems to be a cosmetic error?!?!
>
> micha
>
> Martin Brook wrote:
> > Many thanks Michael. That worked perfectly. (I think when I tried this
> > previously I didn't delete browse.dat, and I don't think the lack of a
> > properly working root account in samba was helping much either).
> >
> > If I could ask one more question - I've noticed that, in the SAM
> > database, the account flags W and S for the two servers' machine
> > accounts are the wrong way round.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > # pdbedit -Lv BIGSERVER$
> > Unix username:        BIGSERVER$
> > NT username:          BIGSERVER$
> > Account Flags:        [W          ]
> > ...
> > # pdbedit -Lv LITTLESERVER$
> > Unix username:        LITTLESERVER$
> > NT username:          LITTLESERVER$
> > Account Flags:        [S          ]
> > ...
> >
> > shouldn't these be the other way round? according to the manpage:
> >
> > W: Workstation Trust Account
> > S: Server Trust Account
> >
> > I suppose they are swapped because that was how they were when the
> > accounts were migrated.
> >
> > I tried editing the flags with pdbedit but that's not allowed. I tried
> > deleting and recreating the machine accounts but was unable to
> > recreate them (so I restored the .tdb files from backup).
> >
> > Does it even matter, since everything is working now?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On 2/11/07, Michael Gasch <gasch at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
> >> hi again,
> >>
> >> > 2. I somehow need to rename the server back to BIGSERVER, but I'm not
> >> > sure how to do this without breaking things again.
> >>
> >> assuming you have a small net work w/ only one DC (samba) and no trusts
> >>     this should be no problem.
> >>
> >> - stop all samba processes on the PDC. rename it in smb.conf.
> >> - make sure that there's no hostname entry in any configfile on your
> >> samba DC that points to LITTLESERVER (e.g. you could grep for it 'grep
> >> -ir LITTLESERVER /etc/*' - everything should be BIGSERVER otherwise this
> >> could lead to inconsistencies)
> >>
> >> - delete browse.dat and wins.dat
> >> - start nmbd
> >> - on another linux system do the following:
> >>         - nmblookup -M YOURDOMAIN
> >>         - nmblookup YOURDOMAIN#1b
> >>         - nmblookup YOURDOMAIN#1c
> >>
> >> this should always list your samba server (at least after 1 minute).
> >> you can also force samba to be the local master in your network (inkl.
> >> preferred master). then start smbd.
> >>
> >> micha
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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