[Samba] Undeletable objects in AD

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:44:21 +0200
Henry Jensen via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> after migration from a NT style domain to Samba AD (running 4.7.8)
> with the classicupgrade method I have two group objects in the AD
> tree with german umlauts which I can't access or delete. When I try I
> get a error which says literally "object not found on the server".
> Same when using other LDAP tools.
> 
> It's not a great problem, but how can I get rid of this two group
> objects?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Henry
> 
> 

How are you searching and what with ?

Have you tried ldbedit ?

ldbedit -e <your favourite editor> -H /path/to/sam.ldb

This will display everything in the editor and you can then search in
that for the groups. You should then be able to create a filter to
delete the groups

Rowland