[Samba] Troubles upgrading jailed DC from 4.8.7 to 4.8.9

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Feb 18 10:34:29 UTC 2019


On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:13:45 +0100
Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:

> On 2/17/19 8:18 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> > Possible things to check:
> > Is the ip for vlan1 10.1.2.34 ?
> 
> Sure.
> It's the only IP vlan1 has inside the jail; it's shown as an alias on 
> the base host.
> 
> 
> 
> > Try just setting 'vlan1'
> 
> You mean change "interfaces=vlan1 10.1.2.34/24" to just
> "interfaces=vlan1"? It doesn't change anything (still Samba doesn't
> start unless I disable nbt service).

I do not use jails (I do not use Freebsd come to that), but it was
worth trying. My thinking was, is nbt binding to 'vlan1' then trying to
bind to the ip as well.

> 
> 
> 
> > Is the 'nmbd' binary being started separately
> 
> I don't have nmbd running (not before and not after the upgrade).
> Isn't this normal on an AD DC?

Yes it is, but there was always the possibility that something was
trying to start 'nmbd' as well.

> 
> 
> 
> >> Or a regression?
> > 
> > Possibly, if it worked before the upgrade, it is normally expected
> > to work after the upgrade. There is probably only one exception to
> > this, if what was working, wasn't supposed to and had been fixed.
> 
> That's what I'd like to know :)
> Is my config ok?

I cannot see any problems with it

> Or is there's something wrong in my smb4.conf and I don't see it?
> 
> Anything I should report?

Just open a bug report with the data you have posted here, if anything
else is required, you will be asked for it.

> 
> 
> 
> > You will not have any network browsing at all, but there is very
> > little with a DC anyway.
> 
> I'm personally fine with that; not sure about other users, though...

As Windows is moving away from network browsing, they will have to put
up with it ;-)

Rowland




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