Hello We want to delete an entry with ldbdel, but we get an error message. delete of 'CN=???.???\0ADEL:6f5b84ef-d456-4a3c-9d15-8e66b1462088,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=xx,DC=xx,DC=de' failed - (No such object) No such Base DN: CN=???.???\0ADEL:6f5b84ef-d456-4a3c-9d15-8e66b1462088,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=xx,DC=xx,DC=de We use following command: ldbdel -H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb --relax "CN=???.???\0ADEL:6f5b84ef-d456-4a3c-9d15-8e66b1462088,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=xx,DC=xx,DC=de" Other entry can we delete without error messages. Regards Karl Heinz