[Samba] Transfer of FSMO roles

John Gardeniers jgardeniers at objectmastery.com
Tue Aug 25 02:46:56 UTC 2015


I just transferred all the FSMO roles from DC-MIGRATE to DC1:

[root at dc1 ~]# samba-tool fsmo transfer --role=all
FSMO transfer of 'rid' role successful
FSMO transfer of 'pdc' role successful
FSMO transfer of 'naming' role successful
FSMO transfer of 'infrastructure' role successful
FSMO transfer of 'schema' role successful

I then double checked as follows:

[root at dc1 ~]# samba-tool fsmo show
InfrastructureMasterRole owner: CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=omtest,DC=com
RidAllocationMasterRole owner: CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=omtest,DC=com
PdcEmulationMasterRole owner: CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=omtest,DC=com
DomainNamingMasterRole owner: CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=omtest,DC=com
SchemaMasterRole owner: CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=omtest,DC=com

Looks good but when I run this:

[root at dc1 ~]# ldbsearch --cross-ncs -H /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb -b 
"CN=Infrastructure,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=omtest,DC=com" -s base fsmoroleowner
# record 1
dn: CN=Infrastructure,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=omtest,DC=com
fSMORoleOwner: CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=DC-MIGRATE,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site
  -Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=omtest,DC=com

You'll notice that this time it still lists DC-MIGRATE as the role owner 
(I didn't bother running this for the other roles). I re-ran the command 
again half an hour later, thinking that perhaps this just need a little 
time to settle, but got the same results.

Does this indicate a problem that I need to resolve? If so, how do I 
resolve it?

Incidentally, the link for " FSMO role management using the Windows GUI" on
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Flexible_Single-Master_Operations_(FSMO)_roles 
is broken.

regards,
John



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