[Samba] Problem to demote samba4 dc

Davy HUBERT davy.hubert at univ-montp3.fr
Wed Jul 31 09:12:14 MDT 2013


Hello Marc,

Le 31/07/2013 15:50, Marc Muehlfeld a écrit :

> Hello Davy,
>
> Am 31.07.2013 15:35, schrieb Davy HUBERT:
>> 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 ?
>
>
> * How did you transfered the roles to to your Samba DC? (through 
> windows, samba-tool, ...?)
I transfered the roles through windows from Samba to Windows ;) so now 
window has all fsmo roles and i can't demote the samba dc.
>
> * What Samba version are you running? "fsmo seize" wasn't working for 
> a while: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9461
# samba -V
Version 4.0.6
>
>
> * Any errors/messages in the log when you transfer the roles?
Nop :(
>
>
> Please give some more information, to make it easier to help.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc
Thank you for your help :)



Regards,

Davy HUBERT
DSI/SMI - Unité Systèmes
Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3
davy.hubert at univ-montp3.fr



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