[Samba] Samba 4.7.1 Switching from SAMBA_INTERNAL to BIND_DLZ failed

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 23:32:31 +0100
Sina Owolabi <notify.sina at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rowland!
> 
> I've uninstalled the samba packages and their dependencies, and now
> the error is:
> 
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com named[9501]:
> samba_dlz: Failed to connect to /usr/local/samba/private/dns/sam.ldb
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com named[9501]:
> dlz_dlopen of 'AD DNS Zone' failed
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com named[9501]: SDLZ
> driver failed to load.
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com named[9501]: DLZ
> driver failed to load.
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com named[9501]: loading
> configuration: failure
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com named[9501]: exiting
> (due to fatal error)
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com systemd[1]:
> named.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com systemd[1]: Failed to
> start Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS).
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com systemd[1]: Unit
> named.service entered failed state.
> Nov 24 23:29:16 testdc1.mytestdom.testsamba.com systemd[1]:
> named.service failed.
> 
> I have also messed up the permissions on /usr/local/samba. :-S
> Would it make more sense to reprovision?
> 

Have a read here before you do anything as drastic as re-provisioning:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/BIND9_DLZ_DNS_Back_End

Rowland