samba - Jun 2003 - Root user problems with Samba 3.0.0beta1

Hello

Anytime I try to do anything with the root user (like join the domain) or
run 'net user' or 'net group' with root, when I enter the
correct
password, I get NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL ....

I've been trying more commands, and if I run tdbedit -e=tdbsam (to export
the smbpasswd to tdbsam style), I get this error :

tdb_update_sam: Failing to store a SAM_ACCOUNT for [root] without a
primary group RID

What does it mean Root does not have a primary group RID? I suspect this
may be the cause of the NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL messages.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-David van Geyn

David,

Please email me your smb.conf file, I'll take a look.

- John T.

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, David van Geyn wrote:
> Hello
>
> Anytime I try to do anything with the root user (like join the domain) or
> run 'net user' or 'net group' with root, when I enter the
correct
> password, I get NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL ....
>
> I've been trying more commands, and if I run tdbedit -e=tdbsam (to
export
> the smbpasswd to tdbsam style), I get this error :
>
> tdb_update_sam: Failing to store a SAM_ACCOUNT for [root] without a
> primary group RID
>
> What does it mean Root does not have a primary group RID? I suspect this
> may be the cause of the NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL messages.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -David van Geyn
>
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

Here's what I tested...

rm -rf /usr/local/samba3 to delete the new samba installation
cd /tmp/samba-3.0.0beta1
make install
cp /tmp/smb.conf /usr/local/samba3/lib
cd /usr/local/samba3/bin
./smbpasswd -a root
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
pdb_getsampwnam: Unable to open TDB passwd
(/usr/local/samba3/private/passdb.tdb)!
Added user root.

The user root is now added... what I had done before was that I had copied
my samba 2.2.8 folder to samba3, and then run make install so it would
'upgrade'. I guess that didn't work out properly.

Now my only question that remains, how do I get the old machine trust
accounts from samba 2.2.8 over to the new tdbsam database correctly, and
also, how do I keep the old domain's SID (or whatever it is) - So that all
the machines don't need to be re-joined to a new domain.

Is it possible?

Thanks,

David
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, David van Geyn wrote:
>
>> Attached is smb.conf - I tried also setting passdb backend = tdbsam,
>> guest, but it won't let me add the root user to the pass database.
>
> 1. Suggest you remove:
> 	interfaces
> 	socket address
>
> 2. Stop samba
>
> 3. Delete all *.tdb files
>
> 4. Add to your smb.conf file the interface scripts needed to add user and
> machine accounts as well as groups, etc.
>
> 5. Restart samba
>
> 6. Run:
> 	smbpasswd -a root
> as the first thing you do.
>
> Please let me know how this goes. Attached is my working smb.conf file
> FYI.
>
> - John T.