[Samba] Need another workaround for FSMO transfer problem

[John Lewis]

On 06/11/2015 04:53 AM, Harry Jede wrote:
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> On 10:38:21 wrote John Lewis:
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> > On 05/28/2015 04:18 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
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> > > On 28/05/15 01:33, John Lewis wrote:
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> > >> On 05/26/2015 07:34 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
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> > >>> On 26/05/15 03:05, John Lewis wrote:
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> > >>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Flexible_Single-Master_Operatio
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> > >>>> ns_%28FSMO%29_roles#Transfering_a_FSMO_role
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> > >>>>
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> > >>>>
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> > >>>>
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> > >>>> I ran into that while trying to rebuild my LXC's as Debian 8.
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> > >>>> The proposed work arrounds assume you have access to a Windows
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> > >>>> Domain controller in your domain, and I don't. Is there
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> > >>>> anything else I can do
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> > >>>> to get all 7 Roles moved to my other domain controller so I can
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> > >>>> rebuild it?
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> > >>>
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> > >>> Funny you should say that, I have a patch pending to show all 7
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> > >>> modes and to seize them, I am also working on the transfer, but
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> > >>> this seems to be a lot more complex and is proving troublesome.
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> > >>>
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> > >>> Rowland
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> > >>
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> > >> Can you link me to your patches so that I may rebuild my samba
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> > >> packages with them applied or learn what the seizing process is
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> > >> so I can complete it by editing the ldap tree with ldbedit?
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> > >> Perhaps I should check the development mailing list.
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> > >
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> > > Yes, it is on the technical list, starting here:
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> > > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2015-May/107448.htm
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> > > l
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> > >
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> > > The patch has morphed into just showing & siezing the 7 roles,
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> > > transferring the two dns roles is much more complex than what I
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> > > originally thought. The problem is that Microsoft (in their wisdom)
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> > > provides a mechanism to transfer the 5 roles that everybody knows
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> > > about, but not for the two dns roles. You need to delete the role
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> > > on the DC that holds it, then recreate it, but this time pointing
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> > > at the new role owner, this all needs to be done from the new role
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> > > owner, you then need to kickstart replication of the role. I have
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> > > got everything working apart from the replication (I think)
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> > >
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> > > Rowland
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> >
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> > I don't know if this has got too advanced for the user list, but I
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> > tried applying your patch to the source package in Debian and here
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> > is my result.
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> >
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> > > john at thunderguard:~/Programming/not-mine/samba-4.1.17+dfsg/debian/p
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> > > atches$ quilt push fsmo.patch
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> > > Applying patch ../patches/05_share_ldb_module
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> > > can't find file to patch at input line 4
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> > > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
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> > > The text leading up to this was:
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> > > --------------------------
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> > >
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> > > |=== modified file 'source4/param/wscript_build'
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> > > |--- a/source4/param/wscript_build
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> > > |+++ b/source4/param/wscript_build
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> > >
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> > > --------------------------
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> > > No file to patch. Skipping patch.
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> > > 2 out of 2 hunks ignored
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> > > Patch ../patches/05_share_ldb_module does not apply (enforce with
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> > > -f)
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> > I would like to get this built in so I can migrate my Domain
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> > Controller so I can finally finish my OS upgrade s so I can work on
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> > my front end stuff.
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> You do it the wrong way.
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> As common, the patch is written for the vendors source. But you are in
> debians source tree, so you should modify the header of the patch, use
> "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc" to create the binary package, test it,
> modify the changelog to document your changes and to end up with a
> package version string that works with apt-get/aptitude and build the
> package again.
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> Here an example header from
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> "samba-4.0.10/debian/patches/bug_221618_precise-64bit-prototype.patch"
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> Description: 64 bit fix for libsmbclient
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> Author: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
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> Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/221618
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> Forwarded: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=221618#27
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>  
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> Index: samba/source3/include/libsmbclient.h
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> ===================================================================
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> --- samba.orig/source3/include/libsmbclient.h
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> +++ samba/source3/include/libsmbclient.h
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> good luck
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> -- 
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> Regars
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> Harry Jede
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I'll try this.