[Samba] Problems in SAMBA 3.3 to 4.0 migration

[Rowland Penny]

On 15/02/15 04:41, soonerdave wrote:
> Update
>
> I did update my Samba 3.3.4 PDC to 3.6.24 after MUCH grief, overcoming (at
> least) two library incompatibilities PLUS recalling the dusty old memories
> that if you start with Slackware, you use Slack's samba installer, not the
> source from Samba itself.
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> I've fixed two library problems with libtalloc and libwbclient that
> prevented smbd from starting (with a Signal 6 - hard crash). It now
> starts...but my original problem between wbinfo and winbindd persists. I
> think there's a similar library problem going on here that's causing wbinfo
> to break off the pipe back to winbindd when it requests...anything.
> Ironically, wbinfo from my new BDC works just fine. But I still can't
> vampire. This library issue may be at hand with my "Segmentation Fault" when
> trying to do the vampire. Not sure, but if anyone has any suggestions in
> that regard, I'd sure appreciate the boost.  I've read additional
> non-Slackware posts indicating a problem between wbinfo and libwbclient
> versions, so I'm suspecting I've introduced that issue here, but now I'm
> just too tired to sort through it any more for now.
>
> Been working on this all day, and my brain is toast, and I realize my
> situation may be so specific there's no way anyone could really offer much
> insight, but if for no other reason I thought I'd update this thread and at
> least try to document what I've done.
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I wonder if your problems are being caused by the use of the smbpasswd 
passdb ?

If you examine 'man smb.conf' for 3.6, you will find this (under 'passdb 
backend') :

            • smbpasswd - The old plaintext passdb backend. Some Samba
                features will not work if this passdb backend is used.

Perhaps if you migrate to tdbsam it will work, not sure because I have 
never had to do it, but it is worth trying in a test setup, I believe 
that you can do this with pdbedit.

Rowland