[Samba] Administrators SID is invalid.

mots nibutif at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 05:06:56 MDT 2014


Yes, the output maches the one from before.

objectSid: S-1-5-21-4290789724-2746532821-3856153555

Am 18.10.2014 um 12:56 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> On 18/10/14 11:45, mots wrote:
>> Thanks, but that didn't work, I'm still getting the same error.
>>
>> Also weird: If the account was expired, then I shouldn't have been able
>> to log in at all, right?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> mots
>>
>> Am 18.10.2014 um 11:50 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>>> On 18/10/14 10:20, mots wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've got a samba 4.2 DC, which has worked well for about a month
>>>> now. It
>>>> still works for all users except "Administrator".
>>>>
>>>> If I login to a Windows box with the Administrator account, I can't
>>>> connect to any shares and clicking on a mapped drive returns the error
>>>> "The security ID structure is invalid".
>>>>
>>>> Opening "Active Directory Users and Computers" on the Windows box
>>>> returns "The RPC server is unavailable".
>>>>
>>>> Using "smbclient -L localhost -UAdministrator" on the GNU/Linux server
>>>> running samba I receife this error: "session setup failed:
>>>> NT_STATUS_INVALID_SID".
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to fix this without restoring the database from backup?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> mots
>>> possibly, have you done anything to the Administrator account ?
>>>
>>> Also can you post the (sanitized) result of:
>>>
>>> ldbsearch -H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb cn=Administrator
>>>
>>> You may have to alter '/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb' with the path
>>> to your sam.ldb
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
> That was the only obvious problem, ok lets check if the Administrator
> has the correct SID:
>
> ldbsearch -H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb DC=cluster | grep objectSid
>
> does the result match what you posted earlier ?
>
> objectSid: S-1-5-21-4290789724-2746532821-3856153555-500
>
> Note: ignore the -500, this is the Administrator's RID and is always
> '500'
>
> Rowland
>



More information about the samba mailing list