[Samba] Switch roles of PDC and BDC machines?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 00:43, Paul Gienger wrote:
> I've got two sites that I am planning a Samba3/LDAP implementation on, 
> each will have its own local server.  The problem is that I want to 
> implement in my local office first, which is not the site that 
> eventually will be the 'master' site.  Sometime later when the proper 
> master site comes online, I'd like to demote for lack of a better term, 
> my local machine to a BDC and then promote the other one to a PDC.  What 
> I think would be involved would be:
> 
> 1. Swap the Domain Master parameter so that the first server is set to 
> No and the new and eventual master is Yes.
> 2. Change WINS parameters so that the new PDC is the WINS server, 'wins 
> support' gets the same treatment as Domain Master, point the BDC at the 
> new PDC and then alter DHCP.

WINS is separate from PDC stuff, so you can switch this at any time

> 3. maybe rejoin the xDC machines to the domain with the PDC and BDC 
> parameters for type set for their new values.

No need, but each machine (including the PDC/BDC) should be joined to
the domain.

> Am I missing any terribly important but non-obvious (to me) parameters?

You will need to down the LDAP system, to switch around the LDAP
replication.  This also can be done independently from 'domain master'
parameters, but I would switch both at the same time.

Andrew Bartlett

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