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I recently upgraded my Samba Domain Member server that provides a share for Windows clients to write their backups to. The backup clients use an AD credential to connect to the share, so individuals are not connecting to the share. This works well and has for years. However, when I upgraded to Samba v4.21.3 (built from source, same distro as my Samba AD DCs), I started getting my logs cluttered up

I started with two Samba DCs running 4.14.7 (camus and cristal). I am replacing them with newer OS and Samba versions with an eye to get everything current. At this point, I have taken the baby step of adding a third server running 4.15.13 (frangelico). I have added the new system to the domain, it is participating as a DC and replication is working nicely. After a few days, I transferred all the

...16 20:21:06 camus samba[30387]: [2023/11/16 20:21:06.299829, 0, pid=30387, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] ../../source4/dsdb/dns/dns_update.c:86(dnsupdate_nameupdate_done) <27>Nov 16 20:21:06 camus samba[30387]: dnsupdate_nameupdate_done: Failed DNS update with exit code 5 Peter smodep at icloud.com

Default Domain Controller Policy and Default Domain Policy have been deleted/lost at some unknown time. How do I clean this up? Just delete these or can I recreate somehow? In cleaning up my pair of Samba AD DCs, I was validating access to GPOs and discovered that while my more recent custom GPSs are fine, the GPOs for Default Domain Controller Policy and Default Domain Policy are not. When

I am running Samba 4.14.7 with two servers setup as my AD servers and configured to replicate. I have a number of other domain joined servers and desktop systems. The servers are all running Rocky Linux 8.10. I have a standalone server running the same OS but not domain joined that I use as my build-Samba-from-source server. I build there then move the resulting tree to the live servers. I want