[Samba] FreeBSD-11 and Samba-4.6 as a DC

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:38:43 +0100
Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:36:02 +1000
> Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne.geraghty at heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > James, David,
> > You will not be able to provision SAMBA 4.6 on FreeBSD.  Refer to:
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12730  2017-04-04
> > 13:49:39 UTC which is the same result that James and I are
> > experiencing. Nothing to do with NFS and nothing to do with the
> > deprecated and unused ntvfs.
> > 
> > I am running SAMBA 4.6.6 Standalone on an i386 FreeBSD
> > 11.1Prerelease and a SAMBA 4.5.12 AD on amd64 FreeBSD11.1
> > Prerelease.
> > 
> > I spent a few hours trying to determine the problem but gave up.
> > Someone with greater familiarity to the code and appreciate for
> > Python will need to take up the reins.
> > 
> > Admittedly I was distracted by a debug level 5 or higher as it
> > complained of not being able to find the administrator, which led me
> > to pam.d/login issues. Similarly the debug displayed use_ntvfs which
> > was in fact a variable within the Python code, set to false.  A
> > standard FreeBSD build is all that's required to provision a SAMBA
> > 4.5.12 AD.
> > 
> 
> The problem seems to be with extended attributes not ACLs. I initially
> thought it was an ACL problem, mainly because that was what the error
> message seemed to show. What I cannot understand is, why does it work
> on 4.5.x but not on 4.6.x, the only real difference between the code
> is that the 'ntvfs' server is no longer built by default on 4.6.x.
> 
> As soon as I get chance, I will build the latest in the 4.5.x series
> and see if I can get this to provision.
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 

OK, now built 4.5.12 on ghostbsd and it provisions and starts. I need
to sort out what changed between this and now.

Rowland