Apologies if I've managed to file this incorrectly; I've run into this error message while trying to add a user. sandwich% sudo samba-tool user add tom [sudo] password for tom: New Password: Retype Password: Unknown parameter encountered: "refresh" Ignoring unknown parameter "refresh" ERROR(<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>): Failed to add user 'tom': - unable to parse dn string File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/user.py", line 176, in run uid=uid, uidnumber=uid_number, gidnumber=gid_number, gecos=gecos, loginshell=login_shell) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 343, in newuser dnsdomain = ldb.Dn(self, self.domain_dn()).canonical_str().replace("/", "") sandwich% apt-show-versions samba samba:amd64/jessie 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2 uptodate
(In reply to Sandwich from comment #0) Closing this, it works for me on 4.15.7