[Samba] samba 4.5.1 DC: attribute names are upper-case converted on replication

Dale Renton drenton at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 15:35:30 UTC 2016


https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12302

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Norbert Hanke via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have set up a fresh DC from scratch using samba 4.5.1 with Bind9, added
> another DC, all strictly following the instructions in the samba wiki.
>
> Samba was built from the source tarball on debian/raspbian 8u8 (Jessie),
> Bind9 is 9.9.5-9 coming with the OS.
>
> Everything appears to be in a working order: I can join Windows
> workstations, add Users with RSAT, etc.
>
> Only when comparing the content of the two DCs I get a strange result,
> some attribute names become upper-case on the second DC:
>
>
> samba-tool ldapcmp ldap://dc1 ldap://dc2 domain --filter=whenChanged
>
> shows countless records like
>
>    Comparing:
> 'OU=Domain Controllers,DC=ad,DC=sprungweg,DC=ch' [ldap://dc1]
> 'OU=Domain Controllers,DC=ad,DC=sprungweg,DC=ch' [ldap://dc2]
> Attributes found only in ldap://dc1:
> ou
> Attributes found only in ldap://dc2:
> OU
> FAILED
>
> and the final result
>
> * Result for [DOMAIN]: FAILURE
>
>
> SUMMARY
> ---------
>
> Attributes found only in ldap://dc1:
>
> ou
> cn
> dc
>
> Attributes found only in ldap://dc2:
>
> OU
> CN
> DC
> ERROR: Compare failed: -1
>
>
> Is that the expected behaviour, or did I do something wrong?
>
> I assume that the attribute case does not matter, but why does then
> ldapcmp complain about the difference in case?
>
>
> regards,
>
> Norbert
>
>
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