[Samba] [SOLVED] replace Windows 2003 dc

[Federico Nan]

Wouw!

And how do you handle the GPO and sysvol volumes? Did you copy them to the
samba sysvol?

I´ve been trying and it always fails in the fsmo transferring. Did you do
this on the Windows MMC?


2013/2/22 Sérgio Henrique <sermac at gmail.com>

> Awesome i will try to replicate in my test environment.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Peter Beck <peter at datentraeger.li> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > weehoo! Samba4 rocks ! Great work!
> >
> > if someone is interested - I finally managed to replace a Windows DC
> > successfully.
> > (at least i hope so ;-)
> >
> > this is what I have done:
> >
> > * Windows DC: Domain and Forest Operation Level = 2003
> > * Reboot Windows DC (always a good idea on Windows ;-)
> > * joining the Samba Domain Controller to the existing 2003 domain
> > * adding a Reverse zone for my network in DNS (on Windows)
> > * replicating forestdnszones, domaindnszones
> > * on the Windows DC i've changed the nameserver for each zone to the
> samba
> >   domain controller (which automatically added an NS-record to dns)
> > * samba_dnsupdate --all-names --verbose
> > * removing the Global Catalog on the Windows DC (including reboot ;-)
> > * transferring all fsmo roles to the samba dc (what's the differnce to
> >   seizing ? for me transfer seems to work more reliable..)
> > * demote the windows server
> >
> > Now I am able to add or remove records in dns (with samba tool and on
> > Windows with the MMC-Snapin) and it looks very good.
> >
> > Now I think I just need to do some "cleaning" (removing dns entries for
> > the replaced windows dc, etc).
> >
> > Regards
> > Peter
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>     Sérgio Machado
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