[Samba] Problem creating new DC's

[Chris Alavoine]

Hi James,

Thanks for the reply.

My last attempt had 4GB RAM and 4 cores (VM). Do you think I should give it
some more?

Thanks,
Chris.


On 3 June 2014 13:42, lp101 <lingpanda101 at gmail.com> wrote:

>     Hi Chris,
>
>     How much memory does your server have and are you attempting to join
> it to the local DC at the site? I've had an issue similar to this and
> increasing the server memory and attempting to join to a local DC helped.
>
>
> On 6/3/2014 8:04 AM, Chris Alavoine wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I currently have 6 Samba4 (4.1.5) DC's spread over a global network. This
>> is working ok but they were created before any Sites were made and as the
>> ability to move DC's to new Sites is not working, I am attempting to
>> create
>> new DC's in each location and then demote the old ones.
>>
>> The problem I am facing is the domain join process keeps timing out for
>> any
>> new DC. I think this is due the amount of objects that now need to be
>> synced:
>>
>> Partition[DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=essence,DC=internal,DC=com]
>> objects[142711/162691] linked_values[0/0]
>> Partition[DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=essence,DC=internal,DC=com]
>> objects[143113/162691] linked_values[0/0]
>> Partition[DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=essence,DC=internal,DC=com]
>> objects[143515/162691] linked_values[0/0]
>>
>> (this is a snippet from attempting to join, as you can see there are
>> 162691
>> objects which takes a fair amount of time to get through - I have tried
>> this from various different locations).
>>
>> This is the final error I get:
>>
>> Replicating DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=essence,DC=internal,DC=com
>> Partition[DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=essence,DC=internal,DC=com] objects[24/24]
>> linked_values[0/0]
>> Partition[DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=essence,DC=internal,DC=com] objects[48/24]
>> linked_values[0/0]
>> Committing SAM database
>> Sending DsReplicateUpdateRefs for all the replicated partitions
>> Join failed - cleaning up
>> checking sAMAccountName
>> ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - (-1073741643, 'NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT')
>>    File
>> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
>> line 175, in _run
>>      return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>>    File
>> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py",
>> line
>> 552, in run
>>      machinepass=machinepass, use_ntvfs=use_ntvfs,
>> dns_backend=dns_backend)
>>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py",
>> line
>> 1172, in join_DC
>>      ctx.do_join()
>>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py",
>> line
>> 1082, in do_join
>>      ctx.join_finalise()
>>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py",
>> line
>> 881, in join_finalise
>>      ctx.send_DsReplicaUpdateRefs(nc)
>>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py",
>> line
>> 866, in send_DsReplicaUpdateRefs
>>      ctx.drsuapi.DsReplicaUpdateRefs(ctx.drsuapi_handle, 1, r)
>>
>>
>> Which seem to suggest that the join fails, it tries to clean up and gets a
>> NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT error.
>>
>> This leaves me with a non-functioning DC appearing in the Domain
>> Controller
>> list on ADUC and ADSS which need to be cleaned out.
>>
>> Any advice on how I can get around this problem?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris.
>>
>>
> --
> -James
>
>


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