Replication between DCs

[Mark Rutherford]

Thanks everyone.

I don't have any failures - looking good.
I read that replication still had some soft spots to work out so I have 
a crontab running samba-tool drs showrepl
every 12 hours and firing a message off so I can keep an eye on it.


On 11/13/2011 1:32 PM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 13/11/2011 17:27, Dave Craft wrote:
>> It appears that the KCC (replication topology generator) is currently
>> not maintaining
>> or adding this attribute (mS-DS-ReplicatesNCReason).   In the AD
>> schema, that attr
>> is listed as "may contains" so its not currently required.
>>
>> Having said that the KCC will maintain this attribute in a future
>> version of the code
>> as its relevent for administrative purposes (particularly in
>> multi-site) as well as recording issues
>> during topology generation.
> Patches for this are welcome !
>
>> Bottom line....I don't think that message signals a problem for your
>> configuration.
> Exactly for the moment it's important to verify the status of the 
> replication.
>
> For instance
> DC=test,DC=samba,DC=home,DC=matws,DC=net
>     Default-First-Site-Name\S2-W2K8R2 via RPC
>         DSA object GUID: 1b179fd5-d6de-44df-ab9d-2b60044bcbb0
>         Last attempt @ Sun Nov 13 18:36:41 2011 CET failed, result 8 
> (WERR_NOMEM)
>         9 consecutive failure(s).
>         Last success @ Sun Nov 13 14:06:35 2011 CET
>
> is not good (although in my case it's not such an issue).
>
> Matthieu.
>