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

[Denis Cardon]

Hi Oliver,

> Creating sites works fine. Moving a DC to the site don't work. I didn't
> find any option in samba-tool to move the dc to another site.
> Should I try to do a demote and than a join?

I had today to set up a new samba4 server (4.1.5) on a remote site, and 
indeed I have strange issues... The setup is based on two DC, one samba4 
and one win2k3r2 on the main site, and a samba4 server on the remote 
site. When creating a new site in AD (not yet created subnet nor moved 
the AD in the site) I get a swarming of IPC$ connexion from windows 
workstations that are never disconnected.

[root at srvads ~]# smbstatus | grep IPC\\$ | wc -l
154

The number of smbd processes increased equally and did fill up the 1GB 
of RAM and the server started swaping... Removing the sites gets 
everything back to normal, that is IPC$ are seldom there for more than a 
second (except for linux servers with winbind running).

[root at srvads ~]# smbstatus | grep IPC\\$ | wc -l
6

Did you see the same behavior when trying to set up sites?

Cheers,

Denis



>
> Regards
> Olivier
>
> Le 27 févr. 2014 18:51, "Denis Cardon"
> <denis.cardon at tranquil-it-systems.fr
> <mailto:denis.cardon at tranquil-it-systems.fr>> a écrit :
>
>     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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