[Samba] Upgrading Samba in a Multi DC environment

[Chris Alavoine]

After almost 2 hours the following appeared:

Checking 387092 objects

I guess that could take a while.

c:)


On 22 August 2014 10:34, Chris Alavoine <chrisa at acs-info.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Marc/Ricky,
>
> Many thanks for the advice.
>
> I am running samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs at the moment but it seems to
> be taking a very long time, is that normal? It's been running for about an
> hour now and hasn't outputted anything as yet.
>
> c:)
>
>
> On 21 August 2014 18:02, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Chris,
>>
>> Am 21.08.2014 10:32, schrieb Chris Alavoine:
>> > I currently have 5 DC's all running 4.1.5 and would like to upgrade
>> them to
>> > 4.1.11.
>> >
>> > Should I upgrade the FSMO DC first and then the others or perhaps the
>> other
>> > way around?
>>
>> There's no special order to follow.
>>
>> The FSMO roles are just a few attributes inside the AD, that defines,
>> which DC(s) are responsible for the 5 different jobs (roles). They
>> doesn't matter when you upgrade.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Can anyone see any pitfalls here?
>>
>> No. There should be nothing special if your current version isn't an
>> early 4.0 or prior 4.0.11/4.1.1.
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba
>>
>> If you want, you can check for errors in your AD:
>> # samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs
>>
>>
>>
>> > Also, should I just:
>> >
>> > 1. stop samba
>> > 2. ./conffigure && make && make install
>> > 3. restart samba
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > I am also planning on switching to BIND_DLZ (currently running Samba
>> > Internal DNS). Would it be wise to perform this change before upgrading
>> or
>> > vice versa?
>>
>> Doesn't matter. But usually I don't recommend to make two new steps at
>> once, because it could make identifying the reason for problems more
>> difficult ("caused the update your DNS problems or the new backend?").
>>
>> A guide for the DNS backend switch you find here:
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_backend
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>>
>
>
>
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