[Samba] samba 4.18 to 4.20 issue

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Apr 8 15:20:43 UTC 2025


On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:36:19 -0300
"Douglas G. Oechsler via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello!
> How are you?
> 
> I updated samba 4.18 to 4.20 and made a new samba ad member with samba
> 4.20. So transfer FSMO from 4.18 to 4.20. Follow commands to fix
> something and finish disable 4.18.
> All appears to work well for about 20 days 

Could it actually have been 30 days ?

> and yesterday while
> trying to configure special permissions on RSAT windows (read, write
> and no erase) at the finish command it made total control and no
> respect to the special permissions command. What can be wrong? When
> was 4.18 its working.
> 
> *The samba version on samba server files is 4.20.2*  package distro

How have you setup the file server ?
Can we please see your smb.conf file ?
Is sssd running as well ?

> 
> System Operating
> 
> Rocky Linux version:
> NAME="Rocky Linux"
> VERSION="9.5 (Blue Onyx)"
> ID="rocky"
> ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
> VERSION_ID="9.5"
> PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9"
> PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 9.5 (Blue Onyx)"
> ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
> LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
> CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:9::baseos"
> HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
> VENDOR_NAME="RESF"
> VENDOR_URL="https://resf.org/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
> SUPPORT_END="2032-05-31"
> ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky-Linux-9"
> ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.5"
> REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
> REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.5"
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> *Samba version on AD-DC *
> Version 4.20.8-tranquilit-1

I take it that you followed Tranquils instructions to set up the DC.

Rowland



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