[Samba] Switch roles of PDC and BDC machines?

[Paul Gienger]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 00:43, Paul Gienger wrote:
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>>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:
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>>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.
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>WINS is separate from PDC stuff, so you can switch this at any time
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>>3. maybe rejoin the xDC machines to the domain with the PDC and BDC 
>>parameters for type set for their new values.
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>No need, but each machine (including the PDC/BDC) should be joined to
>the domain.
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>>Am I missing any terribly important but non-obvious (to me) parameters?
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>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.
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Actually, the LDAP situation is completely independant of samba here.  
We have a working setup for LDAP that I'm not screwing with at all. 

So by the looks of things here, the only important thing is the Domain 
Master = Yes/No parameter?