[Samba] problem after update 3.0.22 -> 3.0.24

[aleuser at inwind.it]

Have you got a backup of the tdb files?


I had a lot of problems to upgrade to the etch (samba 3.0.24) from samba 
sarge (3.0.14):

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_thread/thread/c896d5ea25a72341/5183303468c3a0be?lnk=gst&q=etch+alessandro&rnum=1#5183303468c3a0be


the tdb backup files was the only way to get samba works again

I'm continuing to try the upgrade, last week end I tried the 2.0.25a  
compiling it from source, but I had the same problems. Every time I 
downgrade samba and replace the tdb files


Alessandro




-------- Original Message  --------

From: Carsten John <cjohn at mpi-bremen.de>
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] problem after update 3.0.22 -> 3.0.24
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 10:34:04 GMT+0200 (CEST)

> Hello everybody,
>
>
> we were running into trouble after upgrading our samba PDC to a new
> hardware (and a new debian release).
>
> Before the upgrade we used 3.0.22 on a debian sarge machine without
> problems.
>
> Moving the installation to a new machine with debian etch (amd64, samba
> 3.0.24-6etch4) worked good at the first look.
>
> A closer look shows the following problems:
>
> - a domain member server (samba 3.0.22) can't be accessed any more. The
> samba on the PDC are showing a succeeding auth request for the user, but
> the windows box claims access rights problems. This is a minor problem,
> as we could temporarily go around that by mounting the necessary
> filesystem via NFS to the PDC and exporting them from there.
>
> - our logon script (which uses ifmember.exe  to check the group
> membership of the user for printer mapping) does not work any more.
> Testing "ifmember.exe /list" directly at the windows command line shows
> that group memberships are not reported any more.
>
> - additionally some users are reporting problems accessing shares with
> special access groups (couldn't really verify that so far)
>
>
> Last night I tested the following steps go fix the problem - without
> success :-(
>
> - upgraded to 3.0.25 packages from sernet (same problems)
> - compiled and installed  3.0.22 on the machine to downgrade. smbd now
> claims unknown version of passdb.tdb. Obviously the 3.0.24 smbd upgraded
> the file format, that is now unreadable for the old samba daemon.
>
> So far we don't have any netgroup mappings on the server, as they didn't
> have been necessary in the past.
>
> Any help would be really appreciated, as I could not play around with
> the server so much b'cause it's a highly used production system.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Carsten
>
>
>
>