[Samba] samba4: DC doesn't start up

[Rowland Penny]

On 08/05/14 10:47, Sven Schwedas wrote:
> On 2014-05-08 11:23, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 08/05/14 10:10, Sven Schwedas wrote:
>>> On 2014-05-08 10:52, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 08/05/14 09:35, Sven Schwedas wrote:
>>>>> I tried joining a new DC to my AD domain (Samba 4.1.6).
>>>>>
>>>>> Join claimed to have worked, but samba refuses to start afterwards:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/jJiTzxsG
>>>>> Apparently it doesn't recognize its role any more? What went wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Hi, everything looks ok, so it should work, perhaps there is something
>>>> wrong in your smb.conf ?
>>> Yeah, I still had security = ads in my smb.conf (together with server
>>> role = active directory domain controller). The name is a bit
>>> misleading. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I take it that you already had an smb.conf prior to joining the domain
>> as a DC, in which case, I think that you may have found a bug. If you
>> try to provision a new domain and there is already a smb.conf, the
>> provision errors out, I would have thought that the same would happen
>> when you try to join a DC, as part of the join is writing the smb.conf.
> I already had a smb.conf, and the join didn't modify it at all.
>
>> Rowland
>
>

OK, so how did 'server role = active directory domain controller' get 
into your smb.conf ?

Rowland