Hi Rowland
No, the script oss not running testparm.
What constitutes a "major" change to sysvol? Is it addition of, for
example, a login script or a modified GPO?
Thank you for quick respons
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Anders ?stling
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Den m?n 26 jan. 2026 22:12Rowland Penny via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org>
skrev:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:45:05 +0100
> Anders ?stling via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a script that regularly (every hour) runs a sysvolreset on the
> > DC that holds the PDC emulator (actually all) roles. This has used to
> > work fine, but now it spits out (approx 50 lines)
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
> > idmap range not specified for domain '*'
>
> That is what testparm shows if the default 'idmap config' line is
not
> set in the smb.conf file and that line is not and should not be in a DC
> smb.conf file, so does your script run testparm ?
>
> > 0
> >
> > sysvolcheck reports no error though. Everything seems to work as it
> > should on both our DC's and file servers. Sysvolreset acts the
same
> > also on the other DC (holds no roles).
> >
> > 4.23.3-Debian-4.23.3+dfsg-1~bpo13+1
>
> I do not get that error on my DC with the PDC_Emulator FSMO role, but I
> am on 4.23.4 (latest Debian Trixie backports), so you might want to
> upgrade.
>
> I do not run sysvolreset that often, you only really need to run it
> when you make major changes to sysvol and then, only if you get errors.
>
> Rowland
>
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