[Samba] FMSO transfer gone wrong

[Arne Zachlod]

On 4/5/20 7:14 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 05/04/2020 17:47, Arne Zachlod via samba wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently in the process of updating our Samba environment from 
>> 4.3 to 4.11. Looks like I did something wrong. Some pointers would be 
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> Since I wanted to migrate from Ubuntu to Debian anyway, I decided to 
>> not upgrade in place, but instead create new VMs, join them and then 
>> remove the old 4.3 ones. Everything went well until I also wanted to 
>> transfer FSMO roles to a new VM.
>>
>> Since 'samba-tool fsmo transfer --role=all' didn't work, I decided to 
>> use seize instead. There was no error output other than the expected 
>> error that the transfer didn't work and I shut the old FSMO master DC 
>> down.
>>
>> So, now nothing really works as expected: the other DCs didn't get the 
>> memo to change to the new FSMO master DC and I cant find any 
>> documentation on how to change that by hand.
>>
>> Also, drs showrepl request take forever to finish on the now 
>> disconnected DCs while they just timeout on the FSMO master.
> 
> Hmm, 4.3.x to 4.11.0, are smbd & winbind running, or is just samba 
> running ?

Samba, winbind and smbd are all running.

> 
> Your new DC could be re-indexing, if so just wait.

How can I verify this? The Domain isn't very big, sub 100 PCs and 
roughly the same amount of users, so I expect it shouldn't take very long.

Arne