[Samba] Domain join issues - 4.9.0

[Jonathan Hunter]

Hi,

Does anyone have experience of using ldbedit or similar, to remove the
duplicates below? (Is that even the right way for me to go?) Can I
perhaps query something using ldbsearch, to find the duplicates,
before using ldbedit?

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 21:37, Jonathan Hunter <jmhunter1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> In my database, as reported by the domain join command above, I have
> five duplicates 'for index on servicePrincipalName', plus 107
> duplicates for index on a custom LDAP attribute I am using. If there's
> a correct way I can step through these one by one, and remove the
> duplicates, I am happy to try...

I guess ldbedit does carry some level of risk with it, but I can't
seem to add any DCs to my domain at the moment which is unfortunate as
I had a hardware failure that I now can't recover from.

I note that this was last discussed on the list on 20 March 2018 at
03:14 (message ID
<1113A703-649B-42D5-BDFC-2842767B31E5 at dignitastechnologies.com>) but
there was no conclusion to that thread other than a comment that
4.9.0pre1 seemed to resolve the issue. However, I am now using 4.9.2
on one of my DCs and on the DC that is being newly joined, and I am
still having the problem. (My two other DCs are still on 4.9.0)

For reference, this is the type of error I'm getting when joining my DC:
../lib/ldb/ldb_tdb/ldb_index.c:2352: duplicate attribute value in
CN=somePC,OU=someOU,OU=Computers,OU=mysite,DC=mydomain,DC=org for
index on servicePrincipalName, duplicate of objectGUID
00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444 in
@INDEX:SERVICEPRINCIPALNAME:RESTRICTEDKRBHOST/SOMEPC

Cheers

Jonathan

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