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

Dan Egli dan at newideatest.site
Sat Dec 12 00:57:07 UTC 2020


Check. Will do. Let you all know how it works out.


On 12/11/2020 3:05 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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Dan Egli
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