[Samba] sysvol issues

[Luis Peromarta]

LP
On Jun 29, 2024 at 18:15 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
>
> >
> > Is it normal that one needs to run sysvolreset after every GPO edit or
> > create? If not, how to fix?
>
> To be honest, it probably is normal.
>

It is in my experience. You always need to sysvolreset after creating / editing GPOs.
> >
> > The config files are virtually the same (posted earlier), outside of
> > address, domain name, etc.
> >
> > They both have the GPO issue. Only one of them displays the continuous
> > "idmap range not specified for domain '*'" when attempting to run
> > sysvolreset while samba is active. That system has been upgraded from
> > 4.19.6-Debian to 4.20.2-Debian-4.20.2+dfsg-2~bpo12+2 - the upgrade did
> > not solve the issue. I haven't had a time window to upgrade the other
> > system which is running 4.19.6-Debian.

Is this:

samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --fix --yes

Returning any error ?

I take it from your message you don’t have a second DC in any of the domains ?

>
> The DC I tested on is running 4.20.2 on Debian and I get no output, the
> command runs silently.
>
> The error message is coming from the 'testparm' code, so I am unsure
> why sysvolreset is outputting it.
>
> Rowland
>