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*
1. Install a clean OS of Debian Jessie
2. Upgrade all packages (apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade)
3. Install samba (apt-get install samba)
4. Run the samba-tool utility (samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307
--interactive) and answer the questions asked by the script.
*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
