[Samba] Problem achieving manual synchronisation of idmap.ldb and the associated User and Group ID mappings between two Samba 4 AD DCs

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:14:07 +0000
Stephen via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Cheers Louis, i just ran the diagnostic snippet you sent me:
> 
> pi at ad1:/var/lib/samba/private $ sudo ls -al $(samba -b | grep
> STATEDIR | awk {' print $NF '})/sysvol
> total 20
> drwxrwx---+ 3 root 3000000 4096 Mar 25 16:36 .
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root    4096 Mar 25 17:31 ..
> drwxrwx---+ 4 root 3000000 4096 Mar 25 16:36 samdom.example.com
> 
> pi at ad2:/var/lib/samba/private $ sudo ls -al $(samba -b | grep
> STATEDIR | awk {' print $NF '})/sysvol
> total 20
> drwxrwx---+ 3 root 3000000 4096 Mar 26 10:55 .
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root    4096 Mar 26 10:55 ..
> 
> drwxrwx---+ 3 root 3000000 4096 Mar 25 16:42 samdom.example.com
> 
> Im guessing the empty folders here suggests that I have not synced
> SysVol?
> 
> Cheers
> Stephen
> 
> 

Yes, this is what I was trying to get at, on a newly joined DC, Sysvol
is virtually empty.

Rowland