[Samba] GPO Issue after adding second DC -> winning gpo Result: Failure (Error Code: 0x80070035)

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Feb 2 08:40:07 UTC 2021


On 02/02/2021 03:54, me at tdiehl.org wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>
>> On 01/02/2021 15:41, me at tdiehl.org wrote:
>>>  On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On 29/01/2021 15:36, Marco Shmerykowsky via samba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   On 1/29/2021 2:58 AM, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
>>>>>>   2) samba-tool sysvol reset on dc with FSMO. (dc1)
>>>>>
>>>>>   On the SambaWiki for Sysvolreset it states:
>>>>>
>>>>>       Advice via mailing list (as of May 2018)
>>>>>
>>>>>       (courtesy of Rowland Penny)
>>>>>
>>>>>       If you have added any custom GPOs, never ever use
>>>>>       sysvolcheck or sysvolreset
>>>>>
>>>>>   I have GPO's for drive mapping and screen background.
>>>>>   I'd assume they qualify as "custom"
>>>>>
>>>>>   Should I ir shouldn't I run 'samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset'?
>>>>>
>>>>  OK, I have updated that wikipage, it now says:
>>>>
>>>>  If you have added any custom GPOs and given Domain Admins a gidNumber
>>>>  attribute, never ever use sysvolcheck or sysvolreset, this because 
>>>> this
>>>>  turns the windows group into a Unix group.
>>>>  ''(You are now probably thinking 'what?', a group is just a group, 
>>>> right
>>>>  ? Well, no, a Windows group can do something that no Unix group 
>>>> can, it
>>>>  can own files and directories and guess what needs to own files and
>>>>  directories in sysvol ??)''
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  If you have added any GPO's and haven't given Domain Admins a 
>>>> gidNumber
>>>>  attribute, then you can run sysvolreset.
>>>
>>>  What about the case where you have custom GPO's but have NOT given 
>>> Domain
>>>  Admins
>>>  a gidNumber? For instance after you join a new DC to the domain.
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>
>>
>> I don't really understand that, if you join a new DC to a domain 
>> where Domain Admins has a gidNumber, then Domain Admins on the new DC 
>> will have a gidNumber, but if Domain Admins doesn't have a gidNumber 
>> in the domain, then Domain Admins will not have a gidNumber  on the 
>> new DC.
>
> OK, sorry for not being clear. Let me rephrase the question, If I have 
> not given
> Domain Admins a gidNumber but I have custom GPO's should I run 
> sysvolreset after
> joining a new DC to the domain and setting up osync or whatever to 
> sync the
> sysvols?
>
> Based on what you wrote above, it appears to me that I should run 
> sysvolreset in
> my case but I want to be sure I am understanding correctly.
>
> Regards,
>

Yes 😁

Rowland





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