I have four SLES 10 servers working as Samba servers on the same domain with an LDAP account backend. Relevant smb.conf entries are:
[global]
       workgroup = UNIX
       realm = UNIX.UIB.NO
       server string = ukl-samba
       netbios name = ukl-samba
       security = user
       allow trusted domains = yes
       domain master = yes
       local master = yes
       encrypt passwords = yes


Only one of the servers is set as domain and local master, server string and netbios name obviously differ while workgroup and realm are set to the same. When I first set them up (smbpasswd -w, etc.) they created seperate sambaDomain entries in the LDAP root, with separate SIDs. the sambaDomain entries are named after each server. The user SIDs we simply set to be based on the SID of the first server we set up. It all worked, so I never questioned it.

Then just before the weekend I took the first server up to SLES 10 SP1, which brought Samba up from 3.0.21 to 3.0.24, and this server was effectively broken. On startup, every single user (all 35.0000 of them...) would get a line in /var/log/messages:
ukl-samba smbd[16336]:   User <SNIP> with invalid SID <SNIP> in passdb

Nobody could get at the Samba shares until I edited the LDAP tree to switch the SIDs between this server and the server with the SID the user SIDs were based on.

Clearly, I need to clean something up before upgrading the next server to SLES 10 SP1, or things will be really, really broken. Either a setting to switch of the SID validation, or Someting(tm) to clean up the LDAP tree. The latter is probably better, but I have no idea where to start. I was hoping someone here had an answer which saved me the trouble of setting up a full test domain with LDAP and Samba-servers... Can I just set the same SID on all four domains? Or delete three of the four domains and rename the one with the correct SID to the _domain_ name in sted of the server name?

Thanks,

Bjørn

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