[KLUG Members] samba malfunctions

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:26:07AM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:

> account_policy.tdb  
> group_mapping.tdb   
> netlogon_unigrp.tdb
> ntdrivers.tdb  
> ntforms.tdb    
> ntprinters.tdb      
> registry.tdb  
> secrets.tdb   
> share_info.tdb
> wins.tdb

> There are some utilities included with Samba that do *NOT* build and
> install by defauly but are handy -

These are in tdb-tools*.deb, okay. I'll install 'em and take a look.

> Files such as wins.tdb, ntforms, ntprinters, ntdrivers can be nuked.
> Then just restart samba and you start with a fresh file.

So what happens when the rest get nuked? I think I know.

> > Now, that was interesting. Does my workgroup/domain, FIRST, have a
> > SID?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >And how do I check it?
> 
> [root@littleboy /root]# rpcclient -U adam -W backbone littleboy
> Password: rpcclient $> lsaquery domain BACKBONE has sid
> S-1-5-21-2037442776-3290224752-88127236

I restored the *.tdb files from the previous install and it now works. I
think some domain ID, such as an SID, is generated and cached there, and
woe unto thee who lose it. The strange thing was, you could log onto a
machine only if you had logged on before the *.tdb foul-up. If you
hadn't, it rejected you. Also, this was causing the smbclient PC backups
to fail. Glad I found it.

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