[Samba] migrating NT4 PDC net rpc vampire errors with capital letters
Ryan Davis
rrdavis at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 17:09:24 MST 2009
Hi,
I have searched for days on Google and can't find a clear answer to my
question. I have a NT4 PDC which I am migrating to Samba 3 (Version
3.4.2-47.fc12) on FC12 with kernel(2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686). I am using
tdbsam as my passdb backend.
I setup Samba as a BDC and then joined to NT4 Domain succesfully. When I go
to vampire the accounts I get lots of errors and some user accounts get
transfered over. It turns that all the user accounts that transfer are
those that don't have a capital letter in their username on the NT4 domain
server. Most do and don't get transfered. There seems to be errors with my
groups and Computer accounts. I was able in the past to vampire all the
accounts (even capital letters) so any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Here is a type of error I get:
Creating account: Ryan
useradd: invalid user name 'Ryan'
fetch_account: Running the command `/usr/sbin/useradd -m 'Ryan'' gave 3
Could not create posix account info for 'Ryan'
I get this error for groups:
Creating unix group: 'SophosDomainPowerUser'
groupadd: 'SophosDomainPowerUser' is not a valid group name
smb_create_group: Running the command `/usr/sbin/groupadd
'SophosDomainPowerUser'' gave 3
and for Computer names:
Creating account: LIMS1$
useradd: invalid user name 'LIMS1$'
fetch_account: Running the command `/usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d
/dev/null 'LIMS1$'' gave 3
Here is my smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = GENOME1
netbios name = HERCULES
passdb backend = tdbsam
domain master = No
domain logons = Yes
os level = 40
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd "%u" -n -g users
delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel "%u"
add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd "%g"
delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel "%g"
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -n -c "Workstation (%u)" -M -d
/nohome -s /bin/false "%u"
# username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
logon path =
logon home =
# wins support = yes
[files]
comment = SAMBA File Server
path = /files
read only = No
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