[Samba] samba-tool classicupgrade throws uncaught exception

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 11:33 -0700, Scott Goodwin wrote:
> Update:
> Upon further investigation, the group with SID ending in -1057 is my Domain
> Admins group, which is mapped to unix group "smbadmins".  SID ending in
> -1066 (see my original posting) is Domain Users, which I have mapped to
> unix group "users".
> I suspect that if I remove these two mappings, the classic upgrade may
> succeed, at which point I can re-add them.
> 
> Two things:
> 1) Is it a problem that my Domain Admins and Domain Users groups do not
> have the standard NT4 domain suffixes (I think Domain Admins typically ends
> with -512. Can't remember what the suffix for Domain Users is, but it isn't
> -1066).

Yes.

> 2) Is there a way to remove these mappings from the .tdb files I have
> copied over to the new server?  I know I can remove the mapping from my old
> server, then re-copy the tdb files over, then re-add the mapping on my
> samba3 server, but the Domain Users mapping would impact users (I'm pretty
> sure), and I want to avoid that if possible.  So, I'm hoping there is a way
> to manually edit the tdb's in the test environment where my samba4 server
> is, or some tool that can assist in such.

The 'Samba3' tools still work in Samba 4.0, so if you put the files in
the 'expected' locations on in the new server, then you should be able
to just edit them there, as if it was the original server.  Then
upgrade.

I hope this helps,

Andrew Bartlett

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