[Samba] Samba-4.11 AD DC provisioning fails

[Rowland penny]

On 05/06/2020 14:45, James B. Byrne wrote:
> However, does 'samba-tool domain provision' not have to create that directory
> in the first instance?  As far as I am aware there is no /var/db/samba4/ before
> provisioning for the first time.  So why should a missing /var/db/samba4/ be a
> problem when restarting from scratch?

It appears to be failing at the creation of the 'private' dir e.g. mkdir 
/path/to/private

It expects '/path/to' to exist at that point.

Normally '/path/to' does exist, at least on Debian it does.

Rowland