[Samba] samba4: DC doesn't start up

[Rowland Penny]

On 08/05/14 10:58, Sven Schwedas wrote:
> On 2014-05-08 11:53, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> 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 ?
> I put it there.
>
>> Rowland
>
>
OK, then it still must be a bug, when I joined my second DC to the 
domain, it wrote the smb.conf for me and as I said, if you try to 
provision a new domain with an existing smb.conf, it errors out.

Rowland