[Samba] group mapping... Ldb file?

Moray Henderson Moray.Henderson at ict-software.org
Tue Apr 20 09:10:51 MDT 2010


I just noticed, due to problems after migrating a server config and
restoring all my Persistent TDB Files, that the group mapping file is
named .ldb, not .tdb:

# find / -name \*.ldb
/var/lib/samba/group_mapping.ldb
# file /var/lib/samba/group_mapping.ldb
/var/lib/samba/group_mapping.ldb: TDB database version 6, little-endian
hash size 10000 bytes

This seems to be the case in both samba3-3.3.9-40.el4 and
samba3-3.4.7-42.el5 (SerNet builds).  Is that deliberate?  If so, it
would be helpful to mention it on 

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html#
tdbdocs

to warn people that backing up the .tdb files is not sufficient.


Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"






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