[Samba] [SOLVED] replace Windows 2003 dc

Friedrich Locke friedrich.locke at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 09:56:44 MST 2013


Are you using kerberos to authenticate ?

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Sérgio Henrique <sermac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome i will try to replicate in my test environment.
>
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> 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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