[Samba] Corrupted sam.ldb

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:38:35 GMT
Torin Woltjer via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> sam.ldb on a domain seems corrupted. A fresh domain works fine so
> samba itself seems fine. Running the command, sudo ldbsearch -H
> sam.ldb '(objectclass=computer)' dn returns a slew of errors.
> http://paste.opensuse.org/view/simple/61443635
> 
> I need the data out of this as the server it's from is supposed to be
> production. Is there a way to either repair it or recover any
> portions of it into a new sam.ldb? I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Torin Woltjer
>  
> Grand Dial Communications - A ZK Tech Inc. Company
>  
> 616.776.1066 ext. 2006
> www.granddial.com
> 
> 

Are you in the private directory when you issue the 'ldbsearch'
command ?
Try it again with the full path to sam.ldb e.g.
/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb

If your database is damaged, try running 'samba-tool dbcheck'
If this shows errors, run it again and add '--fix'

Rowland