samba - May 2003 - secret.tdb is bad (fixed)

if anyone is having problems with a bad secret.tdb file this is what i did to
fix the it
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    start smbd, nmdb, join PDC, start winbind, restart smbd/nmdb/winbind
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i think a restart of the daemons is needed, it worked for me after pull my hair
out for days...

On Fri, 30 May 2003, ipguy wrote:
> if anyone is having problems with a bad secret.tdb file this is what i did
to fix the it
> --
>     start smbd, nmdb, join PDC, start winbind, restart smbd/nmdb/winbind
> --
> i think a restart of the daemons is needed, it worked for me after pull my
hair out for days...
A better method is to run the samba utility 'tdbbackup' as part of the
process of shutting samba down, or just before starting smbd.

Please refer to the man page for tdbbackup.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org