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Ahoy all, I'm experiencing an issue when
installing Samba on a fresh Debian Jessie install and looking
to see if others have encountered this issue, if there is an
obvious fix/dependency I'm missing, or if a bug should be
reported.
Problem description After a clean install of Debian Jessie and making sure all packages are updated, I installed samba and then ran the samba-tool to provision a new domain. I get the following error: root@firebat-vm:~# samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --interactive Realm [HARMONYWAVE.COM]: HARMONYWAVE.COM Domain [HARMONYWAVE]: harmonywave Server Role (dc, member, standalone) [dc]: dc DNS backend (SAMBA_INTERNAL, BIND9_FLATFILE, BIND9_DLZ, NONE) [SAMBA_INTERNAL]: SAMBA_INTERNAL DNS forwarder IP address (write 'none' to disable forwarding) [10.1.30.2]: 10.1.30.2 Administrator password: Retype password: ERROR(<class 'samba.provision.ProvisioningError'>): Provision failed - ProvisioningError: guess_names: 'realm =' was not specified in supplied /etc/samba/smb.conf. Please remove the smb.conf file and let provision generate it File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line 434, in run nosync=ldap_backend_nosync, ldap_dryrun_mode=ldap_dryrun_mode) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", line 2022, in provision sitename=sitename, rootdn=rootdn, domain_names_forced=(samdb_fill == FILL_DRS)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", line 603, in guess_names raise ProvisioningError("guess_names: 'realm =' was not specified in supplied %s. Please remove the smb.conf file and let provision generate it" % lp.configfile) I remove the /etc/samba/smb.conf file as the error suggests and then run the exact same command again and it provisions successfully. I just think that a clean install of Jessie should not throw this error the first time it is run. I've Googled and found a few pages and both Ubuntu and Debian bugs related to this exact error message, but it seems that most of them are related to upgrading the Samba package or after reboots, not when running the samba-tool utility. After some further testing I found that I can just remove the /etc/samba/smb.conf file immediately after installing Samba and before running the samba-tool utility. It appears that the mere fact that an smb.conf file exists is the issue. Obviously this issue isn't that critical as the error tells you the problem and even how to fix it, it just seems odd that after a fresh install a provision does not work correctly, especially since it specifically asks for the realm. Steps to reproduce
TL;DR I guess the main question is: "Is a user expected to remove the smb.conf file before running the samba-tool utility to provision a domain? If so, I have not seen this in any documentation (Debian, Samba, Ubuntu or otherwise). Should this be considered a bug? The domain provision process expects that if the smb.conf file exists it is already setup for the domain being provisioned." Thanks, Joshua Schaeffer |