Samba 4 Database File sam.ldb Missing?
By Emma Terry •
I am on Ubuntu Server 20.04, running Samba version 4.11.6-Ubuntu. I need to modify a Samba user account, but I am unable to open sam.ldb due to it apparently not being present. Here is the output:
$ samba-tool user edit username
ltdb: tdb(/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb: No such file or directory
Unable to open tdb '/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb': No such file or directory
Failed to connect to 'tdb:///var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb' with backend 'tdb': Unable to open tdb '/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb': No such file or directory
ERROR(ldb): uncaught exception - Unable to open tdb '/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb': No such file or directory File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line 186, in _run return self.run(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/user.py", line 2435, in run samdb = SamDB(url=H, session_info=system_session(), File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 65, in __init__ super(SamDB, self).__init__(url=url, lp=lp, modules_dir=modules_dir, File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/__init__.py", line 115, in __init__ self.connect(url, flags, options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 81, in connect super(SamDB, self).connect(url=url, flags=flags,I cannot list users either. I haven't tried any other subcommands yet.
I checked the folder it's referring to. Here are the contents:
$ ls
msg.sock netlogon_creds_cli.tdb passdb.tdb secrets.ldb secrets.tdbThe Samba server is running only as a File Server. I'm not running an LDAP (as far as I know). I installed Samba originally under Ubuntu Server 18.04. Other than adding shares to the .conf file I've never made any modifications to the installation.
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