Best practice to replace an AD DC

[Daniele Dario]

On gio, 2014-09-18 at 01:06 -0700, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 09/18/2014 12:28 AM, Daniele Dario wrote:
> > Hi Samba Team,
> > first off I'd say thanks to everybody who's contributing to the Samba
> > project because Samba it's both a fantastic work and learning
> > instrument.
> >
> > Last week one of the two samba 4 AD DCs of my domain crashed due to an
> > HDD problem.
> > Now I'm going to replace the disk and reinstall the OS and the idea is
> > to re-use the same hostname when ready so I need some advice.
> >
> > The two DCs are (one were) running samba 4.1.9 and luckily the one which
> > crashed was not owning any FSMO role so actually the only problem is
> > that replication is stopped (obviously).
> >
> > Can I just use the old smb.conf and idmap.ldb before start samba on the
> > new installation
> If it's just smb.conf and idmap.ldb it's ok, it's really important not 
> to reuse the same sam.ldb.
> Be sure to do a rejoin, it should remove the old Server when trying to 
> rejoin.
> 
> 
> Matthieu.
> 

Hi Matthieu,
sorry for the delay and thanks for your quick response.

It worked perfectly so again thanks.

Daniele.