[Samba] Upgrade a self-compiled DC to a repository version

[Carlos Jesus]

Thank you,

Andrew,

Best regards!

Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> escreveu no dia sexta, 11/11/2022 à(s)
17:55:

> Perfectly fine.
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> Andrew Bartlett
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> On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 14:49 +0000, Carlos Jesus via samba wrote:
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> Hello Rowland thanks for your help.
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> So, at a certain point I'll have a mix of 4.16 and 4.13 DC's until both
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> DC's are upgraded and replicated. Is this safe to do online? Or do I need
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> to "stop the press"?
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> Best regards,
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> CJ
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> Rowland Penny via samba <
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> samba at lists.samba.org
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> > escreveu no dia sexta,
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> 11/11/2022 à(s) 13:14:
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> On 11/11/2022 12:51, Carlos Jesus via samba wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I think I've seen this addressed on the mailing list before, but I can't
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> seem to find it so, any help will be appreciated.
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>
> I have 2 DC's Debian Buster based with Samba-ad-dc self compiled to
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> version
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> 4.13.12. One is a physical machine the other is a VM on different
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> hardware.
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> At that time (samba 4.4) self compiling seemed like a good idea, but now
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> I'd like to move to a repository based version (it seems Van Bell's repo
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> is
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> not an option anymore, hope he's doing well). Buster backport it is then.
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> The plan is to move to 4.14, then 4.15 then 4.16 on a weekly plan to
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> check
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> all is well.
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> The question is, how to do it?
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> * Just adding backports to sources.list and apt update/ apt install samba
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> is most probably not an option.
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> * Running a full
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>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
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> is probably the safer path.
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> * Just keep self compiling stuff if nothing else works.
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> Any clues/references?
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> Best regards,
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> Carlos
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> I would create a new DC running bullseye and samba from backports, join
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> this to the domain and when you are sure everything is working correctly
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> (replication etc), demote one of the old DC's. Repeat for all your other
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> existing DC's.
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>
> Rowland
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