[Samba] Unable to remove orphan DC entries

lp101 lingpanda101 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 08:49:55 MDT 2014


Did you verify using Sites and Services that all traces of this DC are 
removed? I've had issues like this in the past where I forgot to remove 
the NTDS settings. Even though I thought I did using ADSI. As well as 
verifying in Users and Computers that this DC has been removed?

On 4/9/2014 9:51 AM, Andy Durant wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas?
> Andy
>
>
> On 4/8/2014 11:46 AM, Andy Durant wrote:
>> Hi
>> I recently attempted to promote another dc into my domain and then 
>> removed it which apparently didn't go well.
>>
>> The message said removal was successful however: I'm left with:
>>
>> DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=vestec,DC=local
>>         NTDS DN: CN=NTDS 
>> Settings\0ADEL:0b41b6fb-d606-47c1-a7bd-61b8c84d4300,CN=VDC02\0ADEL:0e9bb614-0644-4b4d-9929-04f3137aa958,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=vestec,DC=local
>>                 DSA object GUID: 0b41b6fb-d606-47c1-a7bd-61b8c84d4300
>>                 Last attempt @ Tue Apr  8 11:41:07 2014 EDT failed, 
>> result 2 (WERR_BADFILE)
>>                 13798 consecutive failure(s).
>>                 Last success @ NTTIME(0)
>>
>>
>> I've cleared out any references to the now orphaned DC via adsiedit 
>> and ensured there were no more DNS entries remaining and yet the 
>> error persists.  I can not find any more references anywhere to remove.
>>
>>
>>  Andy 
>



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