[Samba] Change Objects on 2 DCs without connection

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 18 11:32:19 MST 2014


On 18/11/14 18:06, Stefan Kania wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I like to know what will happend if:
> - - one Domain with 2 DCs
> - - two Admins working on their Windows-ws with RSAT.
> - - Admin1 is connected to DC1
> - - Admin2 is connected to DC2
> - - Admin1 creats a user "u1" and a group "g1"
> - - then the two DCs will lose connection, the user and group is
> replicated to DC2
>
> - - now Admin1 makes "u1" a member of "g1"
> - - and Admin2 creats a group "g2"
> - - Admin2 makes "u1" a member of "g2"
> - - Admin2 now deletes group "g1" because for him the group is empty
> - - NOW the connection between the two DCs is coming back online.
>
> Now my question. What will be the status of "u1", "g1" and "g2"
>
> I hope the database will be still in sync :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan
>
>
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No idea really but I think that "g2" will replicate to DC1, replication 
will try to delete "g1" on DC1 and fail because it has a member. DC1 
will replicate "g1" and its member to DC2. It will end with "u1", "g1" 
and "g2" existing on both servers.

Rowland



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