[Samba] Migration from samba_dsdb to tdbsam.

[Dewayne Geraghty]

On 26 July 2016 at 05:19, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 23:11 +1000, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
> > While trying to resolve the loss of prefix for full_audit, I
> > attempted to
> > update from Samba 4.3.9 to 4.4.5.  Its a very simple environment,
> > standalone server running on i386 built from source.
> >
> > After performing the build and installation, I was informed that
> > passdb backend = samba_dsdb
> > was no longer supported, so I commented out the line, to find which
> > default
> > I should use.  testparm advises it should be:
> > passdb backend = tdbsam
> >
> > Is there a mechanism/tool to convert the backend samba_dsdb to
> > tdbsam?
>
> samba_dsdb is still a core and required aspect of the AD DC.  Perhaps
> you built without AD DC support?
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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>
Thank-you Andrew.  I mistakenly used my member-server build which as you
point out was not built with AD DC options (instead AD client support, CUPS
...).

As a side note - if anyone (else) "blindly" comments out their passdb
backend statement to see what testparms says is the default, and mistakenly
tries to run smbd, be prepared to restore your backend.

Pointy-hat award!