[Samba] Updating to Samba-4.6.0 testparm ERROR: Invalid idmap range for domain *!

[spindles7]

Thanks, Rowland.

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:38:28 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:15:10 +0000
>spindles7 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> After updating my test AD DC from samba version 4.5.5 to 4.6.0 and
>> running testparm as asvised, I get the error
>> 
>> idmap range not specified for domain '*'
>> ERROR: Invalid idmap range for domain *!
>> 
>> After I get trhe dump of the service definitions, I notice that there
>> is a line in the [global] section:
>> 
>> 	idmap config * : backend - tdb
>> 
>> However, my smb.conf doesn't contain any such line (as recommended by
>> the Wiki documentation) so where is this coming from, and what to do
>> about it?
>> 
>
>This is an artefact of the latest changes and you do have the line ;-)
>try running 'testparm -v'
>
>There is a bug report about the problem here:
>
>https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12629
>
>Rowland