[Samba] DNS issues after FSMO seize

lingpanda101 at gmail.com lingpanda101 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 17:15:54 UTC 2016


On 3/31/2016 3:12 PM, IT Admin wrote:
> Aaaaaaand more problems... Welcome to the continuing saga of FILER.
>
> It appears that neither SOA or NS records were updated during the process
> of moving fsmo roles to CBADC01.  SOA entries on all three active DCs point
> to FILER.  There aren't any NS records for any of the new DCs, only FILER.
> In RSAT each DNS server's  properties show filer.cb.cliffbells.com is the
> primary server.  This looks at awful lot like this to me:
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-October/195352.html
>
> This process is killing me.
>
> I assume this misconfiguration is in large part responsible for
> authentication and share access issues I'm now experiencing (I sent a reply
> to my last thread on failing to join DCs to the domain but received no
> replies).  I'm of the opinion mentioning this potential failure along with
> the procedure to mitigate the issue would be useful on the wiki page
> detailing transfer/seize fsmo roles...  If I read things right if the
> original fsmo role holder has been demoted prior to identifying the failure
> samba-tool won't be able to query the original DC and manual intervention
> will be required?
>
> Please advise.  This client is about ready to throw me off the roof and
> abandon the system for quill and ink by candle light.  I'm considering just
> going with it.
>
> JS
It's been sometime since I had to seize roles, but when I did I had to 
recreate the SOA and NS record. Have you attempted to create the SOA and 
or NS record?

-- 
-James




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