[Samba] Clients unable to get group policy...

[Ryan Ashley]

James, I cloned it using git. I installed it to a private partition
(/samba) back when I was first testing Samba4. It is in the path and
this worked for ages, but recently just stopped. No errors, no warnings,
nothing. Just dead.

The GP in question is the default domain policy. I already tried
unlinking it and it fails on the next one. I only have two GPOs, so it
cannot "read" either one. I also noted that, during one of my angry
moments, I just kept spamming "gpupdate" in a DOS box on the workstation
and suddenly it worked once, then went back to erroring out. Spamming it
has not fixed it since. I even wrote a small batch script which looped
until gpupdate returned success. It went into an endless loop which
lasted about 20hrs before I stopped it.

As for the sysvol location, it is in "/samba/var/locks/sysvol", which
worked for a few years, and has just stopped. Permissions appear to be
correct.

On 05/29/2015 11:24 AM, James wrote:
> On 5/29/2015 10:40 AM, Ryan Ashley wrote:
>> Thank you, Louis. This has not corrected the getent and id issue, however.
>>
>> On 05/29/2015 10:13 AM, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>>
> Ryan,
>
>     Is it a specific GP that can't be read? Can you remove all links to
> one workstation and leave just the default domain GP and test? Did you
> install samba from tar and provide the location for sysvol in the build?
>

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