Moving a s4 DC to a different host

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 18:59 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we have to move our samba4 DC (we just have one DC at the moment) to a 
> different host with different name/IP. What would be the best way for that?
> 
> - Install bind/samba/etc. as in the s4 wiki on the new host
> - Join the new machine as DC like described here: 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC
> - Copy sysvol content to the new server
> - Unjoin the domain (samba-tool domain demote) on the old server
> - Remove everything of s4 from the old server
> 
> Is this the correct way? Do I have to pay attention to anything else?

Pretty much.  You may need to move the fsmo roles across before the
demote, otherwise it can fail.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org