[Samba] Problem to demote samba4 dc

Ricky Nance ricky.nance at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 08:00:42 MDT 2013


I had this happen the other day and ran it down to the DomainDNS and
ForestDNS not transferring fully. I haven't yet had time to file a bug on
this.

Ricky


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Davy HUBERT <davy.hubert at univ-montp3.fr>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently migrated our samba 3 domain to an AD domain using Samba 4
> classic upgrade tool. Well, everything seems to work fine since i'm still
> alive ;) .
>
>
> I promoted a Windows 2k8 box as a new DC of this domain and I transfer the
> 5 FSMO roles to it.
>
> Now I would like to demote the Samba4 DC but when I tried I got this
> message :
>
> # samba-tool domain demote
> ERROR: Current DC is still the owner of 2 role(s), use the role command to
> transfer roles to another DC
>
> When check the fsmo roles status via "samba-tool fsmo show" it confirms
> that the Samba 4 DC doesn't own anything.
>
> How can I manage to demote the Samba 4 box ?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Davy.
>
> --
> Davy HUBERT
> DSI/SMI - Unité Systèmes
> Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3
> davy.hubert at univ-montp3.fr
>
>
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