[Samba] renaming default first site or moving a server to a different site problem

[Achim Gottinger]

Also had these site renaming and moving issues, it had stopped working 
at around 4.1 release time.

Can be you have a few left over dns entries in

_tcp.[Sitename]._sites.DnsDomainZones.domain.local
_tcp.[Sitename]._sites.dc._msdc.domain.local
_tcp.[Sitename]._sites.gc._msdc.domain.local

pointing to ad dc's at different sites, remove these to make sure the 
correct ad dc's are always contacted.
It may also fix your replication issues.
I only get replication errors for sites trying to replicate their 
objects with other sites to whom they are not directly connected, means 
site-link-bridges are not working, but replication agains default first 
site works well.

achim~


Am 27.02.2014 19:08, schrieb Damien Dye:
> I have same issue
> I can create sites but not move DC's into them.
>
> setting up sites first then adding DC seams to go into the correct site but
> then not replicate :-(
>
> DC's in the main default site seam so work ok but some clients run off to
> the DC at the other site of a VPN link so need to find a final practical
> solution to this.
>
> if coding is needed then temp solution might be to join a windows DC on 180
> trial to fix it then replicate back to samba but would rather not do that.
>
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> On 27 February 2014 17:51, Denis Cardon <denis.cardon at tranquil-it-systems.fr
>> wrote:
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>>   We have different locations at our company and I'm trying to separate them
>>> into different sites. I'm using the "Active Directory Sites and Services"
>>> tool but when I try to rename the default-first-site, the tools goes in
>>> not
>>> responding state.
>>> I also tried to create a new site. This works but when I try to move a
>>> server to the site, it freezes again.
>>>
>>> Are such features supported? Is there another way to do it?
>>>
>> Creating sites and subnets in "Active Directory Sites and Services" mmc
>> does work, at least with the Windows server 2003 administration tools pack
>> (didn't tried that specific task in RSAT).
>>
>> I did this kind of setup a few times with different version of samba4.0
>> and samba4.1 series. However I don't think I ever tried to rename the
>> default-first-site though.
>>
>> Can you try to create the sites through samba-tool to see if you get the
>> same issue?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>> Olivier
>>>
>>>
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