From 19d1c41fe5e88e5b186f7314df725e7ce3cb7646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:05:00 +1000 Subject: WHATSNEW: more information on running dbcheck --- WHATSNEW.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW.txt') diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 6b6e685d44..3fac3606a8 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -79,6 +79,21 @@ See also the -H option to point dbcheck at a different database to the default, and the --fix and --yes options to make changes and to not prompt about those changes. +After upgrading Samba, it is suggested that you do the following: + + - stop samba + - take a backup copy of your sam.ldb and sam.ldb.d/* database files + - run samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --fix + - use 'all' to say yes to fixing each type of error found + - after it has finished, run dbcheck again to ensure it reports no + errors + +There will be a lot of errors fixed, particularly related to +bad/missing GUID values. This is due to a bug in previous releases +that left many objects with bad GUID values. These can all be fixed +using dbcheck with steps above. + + New default paths ----------------- -- cgit