samba - Mar 2017 - Updating to Samba-4.6.0 testparm ERROR: Invalid idmap range for domain *!

After updating my test AD DC from samba version 4.5.5 to 4.6.0 and running
testparm as asvised, I get the error

idmap range not specified for domain '*'
ERROR: Invalid idmap range for domain *!

After I get trhe dump of the service definitions, I notice that there is a line
in the [global] section:

	idmap config * : backend - tdb

However, my smb.conf doesn't contain any such line (as recommended by the
Wiki documentation) so where is this coming from, and what
to do about it?

Thanks,

Roy

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:15:10 +0000
spindles7 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> After updating my test AD DC from samba version 4.5.5 to 4.6.0 and
> running testparm as asvised, I get the error
> 
> idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> ERROR: Invalid idmap range for domain *!
> 
> After I get trhe dump of the service definitions, I notice that there
> is a line in the [global] section:
> 
> 	idmap config * : backend - tdb
> 
> However, my smb.conf doesn't contain any such line (as recommended by
> the Wiki documentation) so where is this coming from, and what to do
> about it?
> 
This is an artefact of the latest changes and you do have the line ;-)
try running 'testparm -v'

There is a bug report about the problem here:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12629

Rowland

Thanks, Rowland.

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:38:28 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:15:10 +0000
>spindles7 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> After updating my test AD DC from samba version 4.5.5 to 4.6.0 and
>> running testparm as asvised, I get the error
>> 
>> idmap range not specified for domain '*'
>> ERROR: Invalid idmap range for domain *!
>> 
>> After I get trhe dump of the service definitions, I notice that there
>> is a line in the [global] section:
>> 
>> 	idmap config * : backend - tdb
>> 
>> However, my smb.conf doesn't contain any such line (as recommended
by
>> the Wiki documentation) so where is this coming from, and what to do
>> about it?
>> 
>
>This is an artefact of the latest changes and you do have the line ;-)
>try running 'testparm -v'
>
>There is a bug report about the problem here:
>
>https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12629
>
>Rowland