[Samba] DNS managment error

[Garth Keesler]

Interesting. Are Forest and Domain records being replicated in both 
directions from all DCs? It always worked from the WinDC to the S4DC but 
not in the other direction. Also, were you able to use the WIN DNS MMC 
to examine the DNS records on any of the Samba DCs? If so, you are 
probably close to having it working; something I never managed to do.

See ya...
Garth

On 08/27/2013 12:07 PM, Antun Horvat wrote:
> Thanks for such quick reply,
>
> I have just executed "samba-tool drs showrepl" command and it seems 
> that Forest and Domain LDAP DIT are being replicated successfully.
> But I still doubt that it can not be fixed since all RR records that 
> are added to w2k3 server are successfully propagated and present. All 
> name resolution queries on samba reflect the state of w2k3 DNS.
>
> Is there some way to debug RPC calls so that we can more precisely 
> locate the error?
>
>
> All best,
> Antun
>
> On 08/27/2013 06:40 PM, Garth Keesler wrote:
>> This issue has been discussed at length before with no resolution to 
>> my knowledge. If you use "samba-tool drs showrepl", you will probably 
>> notice that Forest and Domain DNS is not being replicated to/from all 
>> DCs. Additionally, if you use Win2003 DNS MMC, you will not be able 
>> to detect that DNS is running on the Samba DCs nor that they are DCs 
>> at all. I have only tested this using internal Samba DNS but have 
>> found no workaround and have dropped trying to use Samba to 
>> demote/replace a Win2003 DC for now.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Garth
>>
>> On 08/27/2013 09:58 AM, Antun Horvat wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i have an issue with existing installation of samba4 domain controller
>>> that is specific to dns managment.
>>> In the domain I have two samba4 4.0.7 and one windows 2003 server 
>>> that I
>>> plug periodically to manage the dns.
>>> All fsmo roles are transfered to samba.
>>>
>>> All aspects of the domain work perfectly, except one, the samba-tool 
>>> dns
>>> commands do not work.
>>> All commands when executed on samba server return "ERROR(runtime):
>>> uncaught exception - (9717, 'WERR_DNS_ERROR_DS_UNAVAILABLE')" error. 
>>> The
>>> same command pointed to windows server works fine.
>>> All commands that add hosts to window are replicated to samba 
>>> instances.
>>>
>>> The domain is functioning at 2003 native level (reported by windows
>>> tool), but samba can't figure out the level.
>>> Also when i try to demote the w2k3 server i get the error that "Active
>>> Directory could not find another domain controller to transfer the
>>> remaining data in the directory partition
>>> DC=DomainDnsZones,Dc=example,dc=com"
>>>
>>> Could you please point me to the right resources so that i can resolve
>>> my current issues.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance, and I wish best to all Samba community.
>>>
>>> ps
>>> If you need some kind of help, such as testing rc's in certain
>>> configuration, please contact me.
>>>
>>>
>>