[Samba] Corruption of winbind cache after converting NT4 to AD domain

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Sat Feb 12 13:57:42 UTC 2022


On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 13:46 +0100, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> On 2/12/22 09:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > It helped, but needed slightly expanding, so it looks like I will
> > have
> > to put it back again.
> 
> I guess that was me who removed some of the too stuff from the
> "Setting 
> up Samba as a Domain Member".
> 
> I had passed the link to a customer because I remembered the page as
> a 
> good and concise guide for setting up a member server. Then just
> after 
> sending out the link I read the page again and realized that it was 
> substantially changed compared to what I remembered was there and
> what I 
> saw was too convoluted.
> 
> I briefly checked the page history trying to figure out who
> contributed 
> the changes trying to figure out minimal changes that would result in
> a 
> reasonable doc without throwing out too much stuff.
> 
> Unfortunately due to time constraints I had to resort to removing
> quite 
> a bit of stuff to get back to a reasonable state.
> 
> When exanding the article please ensure users are not overwhelmed.
> There 
> are probably a few ways to achieve this, one might be starting
> simple 
> and putting the nuances and the complex stuff at the end.
> 
> Sorry!
> -slow

It all went in overtime in response to questions asked on the samba
mailing list and while it may have seemed convoluted to you, it
answered a lot of questions. Yes it could have been written better, but
it was needed, so a version of it is going back.

Rowland
  




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