[Samba] Unable to transfer ForestDns/DomainDNS
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Jul 12 10:12:13 UTC 2016
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 08:37 -0400, Jason Waters wrote:
> Ideally I would get the transfer to just work, but if I can't do that
> then
> I have a question about the path forward. Since I would like to keep
> the
> PDC up, do I run dcpromo on PDC(Win2003) and get it out of the domain
> and
> then do the samba-tool fsmo seize, or the other way around? Or
> doesn't it
> matter? My concern is the big scary messages about NEVER EVER start
> the
> machine again that you seized the fsmo from for fear of your entire
> AD
> blowing up and zombie apocalypse starting. But I thought once you
> run the
> dcpromo and demote the DC active directory is gone and then it won't
> break
> AD on the good domain.
Samba doesn't care about the fsmo role owner for forestdnszones or
domaindnszones at the moment. I'm not sure what they are for (I'm sure
they have a purpose, but I've not researched it).
Andrew Bartlett
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