[Samba] Unable to remove orphan DC entries

[Andy Durant]

Yep I've checked there as well.

Removed all traces from ADUC, DNS, adsiedit, sites and services, checked 
in domains and trusts.

ntdsutil only gets me so far before syntax fails.


On 4/9/2014 10:49 AM, lp101 wrote:
> 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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Andy Durant
Information Technology Manager
Vestec Inc.
Waterloo, ON Canada
email: adurant at vestec.com