So, after recently cloning a machine to eliminate a certain restarting problem, I needed to change the name of the machine to avoid a duplicate name on the network.
My problem is this. When trying to change the cloned machine's name back to what it was originally, the server would reject the name change- the name had been used previously from the last installation.
Trying to fix the issue apparently made it worse. I cannot even change the name of the machine in question to something that hasn't been used before (A device attached to the system is not functioning.)
Analysis of a logfile (messages) indicates that the smbpasswd database has been corrupted (however the users and machines below the machine account in question can still log in)- a portion of the file is this (trying to rename the machine at this point).
I tried this (
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32869.0 - Error there is already a system account of that name)
I tried to make the machine account visible and deleting it from the server-manager, and also tried that from the command-line- which apparently corrupted the database.
Jan 3 22:14:27 serverone smbd[4990]: [2011/01/03 22:14:27, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:build_sam_account(1252)
Jan 3 22:14:27 serverone smbd[4990]: build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! username LABNINE$ with uid 5053 is not in unix passwd database!
Jan 3 22:14:27 serverone smbd[4990]: [2011/01/03 22:14:27, 0] rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:set_user_info_21(3249)
Jan 3 22:14:27 serverone smbd[4990]: set_user_info_21: failed to rename account: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
Server version is 7.5.1. Clients are Windows XP SP3.
Is this error easily rectifiable or will it require a server rebuild?
Any ideas?
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