[Samba] WERR_DS_DRA_MISSING_PARENT while Joining Samba4 DC to Samba4 Domain

[Daniel McFeeters]

I am not able to join a second domain controller to the domain, though. Is this a samba bug, or is there something I can do to fix the WERR_DS_DRA_MISSING_PARENT error?

Daniel McFeeters 


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> From: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
> To: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:34:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] WERR_DS_DRA_MISSING_PARENT while Joining Samba4 DC to Samba4 Domain

> On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:04:22 -0500 (EST)
> Daniel McFeeters via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > I have a Samba4 Domain Controller, which we have run in production
> > since ~2009 (early alpha). It's had a few issues over the years which
> > we've managed to recover from. I'm trying to join a second Samba4 DC
> > to the domain, but having trouble when I issue the join. I have run
> > dbcheck on the existing DC, which found and fixed some errors. There
> > are still about 60+ errors like this:

> > # samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs
> > ...
> > ERROR: no target object found for GUID component for
> > objectCategory in object DC=... Not removing dangling forward link

> > I'm running the same Samba version on both systems. Just upgraded to
> > 4.7.3 (Ubuntu 18.04 beta) in attempting to resolve this problem. (I
> > attempted with earlier versions with the same problem.)

> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


> You can ignore these, they seemingly have always been there, but until
> a fix for something was added, nobody knew they were there. A fix is
> being worked on, but until it is released, you can safely ignore the
> 'dangling forward links'

> Rowland

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