[Samba] placing sam.ldb (was dns.keytab doesn't exist)

[Rowland penny]

On 11/12/2020 21:55, Dan Egli wrote:
> Would it be better to just re-provision the domain? There's no body in 
> it right now but a single test user and a single machine account. It 
> would not be hard to simply re-run samba-tool domain provision.
>
> You tell me. I can nuke and start over, or try to fix this install, 
> whichever is easier.
>
> On 12/11/2020 2:44 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> On 11/12/2020 21:20, Dan Egli wrote:
>>>
>>> Problem is: that sam.ldb is the one that's broken (empty) I think. 
>>> There's ANOTHER sam.ldb in /var/lib/samba/private that's a bit bigger:
>>> -rw-rw---- 1 root named 4694016 Dec 10 18:05 
>>> /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb
>>>
>>> So if samba is looking for a sam.ldb in /var/lib/samba/bind-dns 
>>> should I copy the one from private over?
>>
>> No, it looks like something went wrong with the upgrade to Bind9, try 
>> reading these:
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/BIND9_DLZ_DNS_Back_End
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_BIND_DNS_Server
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_Back_End_of_a_Samba_AD_DC 
>>
>>
>> I am not entirely sure just how you have got to where you are now, 
>> but if everything is done correctly (the right commands at the right 
>> time) everything should be created/moved for you with minimal manual 
>> intervention.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>
>>
If this is a new domain, I personally would start again.

Rowland