drs replication, what is covered?

[Matthieu Patou]

Hi Gemes,
On 27/01/2012 12:07, Gémes Géza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does the drs replication cover application partitions?
Application partition are just partitions nothing fancy has to be done 
to replicate them, what is required is that a Given DC has the will to 
replicate them ...
> If not
> -is it a missing feature or
> -it is not designed to do it, and the applications using them should
> implement the replication themselves?
>
> If this is just a mater of some configuration or patch were should that
> be? (I already looked at various files in source4/rpc_server/drsuapi but
> it is still not clear were the "rootdn" would be set)
So we have at least 2 bugs:

* We load the partitions of a DC only at startup (function 
dreplsrv_load_partitions) so if while running the DC has its list of NC 
changes (ie. increased to add more partitions).
* we lack a way to add a NC to given DC, in theory this could be done in 
samba-tool

     It should do (if not RODC):
             update HasMasterDC and msDs-HasMasterDC (like in 
join_add_ntdsdsa)

             repl.replicate(ctx.config_dn, source_dsa_invocation_id,
                     destination_dsa_guid, rodc=ctx.RODC,
                     replica_flags=ctx.replica_flags)

In theory point 2 shouldn't be too complicated to fix, and point 1 well 
we can live with the fact that DC has to be restarted when adding 
partitions.

Matthieu.

>
> Thank you for any pointers!
>
> Cheers
>
> Geza


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