[Samba] samba-tool dbcheck produces wrong instancetype errors

Bruno Pereira bpereira at ipbrick.com
Thu Jan 10 09:55:26 MST 2013


Hello,

I have the same issue in a W2K3 and W2K8 AD domain.

Best Regards


On 01/10/2013 04:50 PM, Chris Lewis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have joined a samba4 instance to en existing W2k8 AD domain as an
> additional domain controller.
>
> When I do
>
> samba-tool dbcheck
>
> I get (example) :
>
> ERROR: wrong instanceType 4 on CN=INVIEW-DC2,OU=Domain
> Controllers,DC=inview,DC=local, should be 0
> Not changing instanceType from 4 to 0 on CN=INVIEW-DC2,OU=Domain
> Controllers,DC=inview,DC=local
>
>
> This happens for  644 out of 655 of the objects in directory. I have
> attempted to fix one or two less important objects and the error does
> not appear again.
>
> Before I go ahead and fix them all, I want to find out whether doing
> this would have any unwanted ramifications?
>
> Can anyone explain what causes these errors and if fixing them might
> break something?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Chris
>


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