[Samba] Failure demoting 2008_R2 DC (S4rc5)

[Thomas Simmons]

Hello Matthieu,

I am working in with VMs, so it's very easy to deploy and test systems. I
shutdown the Samba server and provisioned a 2008R2 server using the same
domain name "testdom.com". When I join another 2008R2 server to this
domain, it correctly detects one authoritative DNS server. Please let me
know if you have any advice. I am surprised that no one has reported this
before - I would assume most AD root domains are not provisioned as
subdomain. We will be using a subdomain and I only stumbled on this issue
trying to resolve the demotion issue, however I am happy help with further
testing.

I have opened a bug regarding the problem I am seeing when demoting a
Windows Server.
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9429


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Matthieu Patou <mat at samba.org> wrote:

> On 11/23/2012 02:31 PM, Thomas Simmons wrote:
>
>> Thank you Matthieu! Do you know if there is a known issue that is causing
>> me to receive the message that Windows (Server 2008R2) cannot determine
>> the
>> number of authoritative DNS servers during dcpromo when my domain is "
>> testdom.com" or "testdom.local" but when I provision as "
>> internal.testdom.com" Windows correctly reports finding one authoritative
>> DNS server? Thanks again!
>>
> No I don't know but what if you try to use dcpromo on a new domain
> testdom2.corp ? (that is to say without a samba DC) does it gives the same
> error ?
>
> Matthieu
>
>
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> Matthieu Patou
> Samba Team
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