[Samba] demote DC

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Marc Muehlfeld!

>> If this is the problem, is there any way to change the domain name
>> without the need of rejoin all the machines to the domain?

> Currently Samba doesn't provide the ability to rename a AD domain.

Well, then there's a dirty hack to have it working... somehow.
Open /etc/nsswitch.conf and locate "hosts" line.
In there, remove "mdns4_minimal [notfound=return]" part on every affected system.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon at yandex.ru) 20.07.2014, <05:07>

Sorry for my terrible english...