[Samba] FSMO transfer problems

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 20:39 +0000, Piers Kittel via samba wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> root at DOMAIN-ad:/var/lib/samba/sysvol# samba-tool fsmo transfer 
> --role=domaindns -U Administrator
> Password for [DOMAIN\Administrator]:
> ERROR(<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>): uncaught exception - 'module' 
> object has no attribute 'drs_utils'
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", 
> line 176, in _run
>      return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/fsmo.py", line 
> 520, in run
>      transfer_dns_role(self.outf, sambaopts, credopts, role, samdb)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/fsmo.py", line 
> 129, in transfer_dns_role
>      except samba.drs_utils.drsException, e:
> 
> Looking online, I found someone fixed this by adding in "import 
> samba.drs_utils" in the file "fsmo.py" which I've done.  Running it 
> again gets:
> 
> root at DOMAIN-ad:/var/lib/samba/sysvol# samba-tool fsmo transfer 
> --role=domaindns -U Administrator
> Password for [DOMAIN\Administrator]:
> ERROR: Failed to delete role 'domaindns': LDAP error 16 
> LDAP_NO_SUCH_ATTRIBUTE -  <attribute 'fSMORoleOwner': no matching 
> attribute value while deleting attribute on 
> 'CN=Infrastructure,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=DOMAIN,DC=intranet'> <>

For this much, can you please file a bug?

As an administrator you shouldn't need to be patching our python code.

I've sent you a bugzilla invite to aid you in that.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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