Package: samba Version: 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
As 'basic samba' is deprecated more sites have to use a samba full ad setup. This causes some implementation problems to affect more sites. Using ad, for maintenance on will have to create ad backups using 'samba-tool' as decribed at: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Back_up_and_Restoring_a_Samba_AD_DC This procedure fails when your smb.conf contains "include" statements. The error-generated message is meaningless, the python code does not help, the smb.conf parser is not implemented in python (is native code). There are good reasons to use includes, in my case some of the included data is auto-generated by other tools. Here is my (simplified) smb.conf: [global] realm = CENTAURI.HOME server role = active directory domain controller workgroup = CENTAURI dns forwarder = 127.0.0.2 idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes kdc:server ticket lifetime = 60 kdc:user ticket lifetime = 60 kdc:user renewal lifetime = 189 ### include = /etc/samba/networks.conf ### netbios name = ALPHA1 netbios aliases = ALPHA disable netbios = no ### include = /etc/samba/services.conf ### [netlogon] path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol/centauri.home/scripts read only = No [sysvol] path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol read only = No Thanks Jürgen -- Package-specific info: * /etc/samba/smb.conf present, but not attached * /var/lib/samba/dhcp.conf present, but not attached -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages samba depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii dpkg 1.20.9 ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii libbsd0 0.11.3-1 ii libc6 2.31-12 ii libgnutls30 3.7.1-3 ii libldb2 2:2.2.0-3.1 ii libpam-modules 1.4.0-7 ii libpam-runtime 1.4.0-7 ii libpopt0 1.18-2 ii libpython3.9 3.9.2-1 ii libtalloc2 2.3.1-2+b1 ii libtasn1-6 4.16.0-2 ii libtdb1 1.4.3-1+b1 ii libtevent0 0.10.2-1 ii libwbclient0 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 ii procps 2:3.3.17-5 ii python3 3.9.2-3 ii python3-dnspython 2.0.0-1 ii python3-samba 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-common 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-common-bin 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-libs 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 ii tdb-tools 1.4.3-1+b1 Versions of packages samba recommends: ii attr 1:2.4.48-6 ii logrotate 3.18.0-2 ii python3-markdown 3.3.4-1 ii samba-dsdb-modules 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-vfs-modules 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 Versions of packages samba suggests: pn bind9 <none> pn bind9utils <none> pn ctdb <none> ii ldb-tools 2:2.2.0-3.1 ii ntp 1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1 pn smbldap-tools <none> pn ufw <none> ii winbind 2:4.13.5+dfsg-2 -- no debconf information