James B. Byrne
2020-Aug-13 14:07 UTC
[Samba] Failed to find our own NTDS Settings DN in the ldb!
FreeBSD-12.1p7 Samba-4.10.15 I attempted (and failed) to restart the second DC on a test domain and got this error in smbd.log Failed to find our own NTDS Settings DN in the ldb! [root at smb4-1 ~ (master)]# host -t A smb4-1.brockley.harte-lyne.ca smb4-1.brockley.harte-lyne.ca has address 192.168.18.161 [root at smb4-1 ~ (master)]# host -t A smb4-2.brockley.harte-lyne.ca smb4-2.brockley.harte-lyne.ca has address 192.168.18.162 [root at smb4-1 ~ (master)]# samba-ldbsearch -H /var/db/samba4/private/sam.ldb '(invocationId=*)' --cross-ncs objectguid Searching for dsServiceName in rootDSE failed: operations error at ../../source4/dsdb/samdb/ldb_modules/rootdse.c:518 Failed to find our own NTDS Settings DN in the ldb! # record 1 dn: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca objectGUID: 00d350dd-20ae-4718-be2a-90c924adc19b # record 2 dn: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca objectGUID: aac648b2-aac8-411d-afe0-7cbd5455841c # returned 2 records # 2 entries # 0 referrals Up to this point I have not experienced problems in getting both DCs to start. How do I fix this? How did this error become introduced? -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Unencrypted messages have no legal claim to privacy Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3