[Samba] samba-ad-dc from debian backports fails to start with /usr/sbin/samba missing

[Paul Leiber]

Am 04.07.2024 um 21:00 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 20:27:37 +0200
> Paul Leiber via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Samba list,
>>
>> I have a Samba instance running as an ad-dc on debian bullseye.
> 
> I suggest you upgrade, bullseye goes EOL in three weeks.

Aww, my system is already on bookworm, not on bullseye. Sorry for making 
things more difficult than necessary with this mixup.

>> Some
>> time ago, I changed the standard installation to backports with
>>
>> apt -t bullseye-backports install samba
> 
> I normally install these packages:
> attr samba smbclient winbind libnss-winbind libpam-winbind ldb-tools
> krb5-user python3-setproctitle
> 
>>
>> After a recent update, samba-ad-dc service didn't start anymore. The
>> journal gave the following hint:
>>
>> Jul 04 20:05:37 xxx (samba)[5864]: samba-ad-dc.service: Failed at
>> step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/samba: No such file or directory
>>
>> Indeed, the file was not there.
> 
> The Debian Samba maintainer has been doing some package changes lately,
> not sure if they are relevant to bullseye, but it is possible, because
> what you are describing is something that has been reported on
> bookworm. There is now a new package called 'samba-ad-dc', this needs
> to be installed or no AD DC.
> 

That's it. After installing the package samba-ad-dc, everything seems to 
be working again.

Thanks for the very quick help, Rowland!

Paul