[Samba] Desynced DC

[Achim Gottinger]

Have you tried to replicate with the --sync-forced and --full-sync options?

Am 24.02.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Sébastien Le Ray:
> Hi list,
>
> We use samba 4.1.17 (debian's version) on several DCs. I just realized 
> that one of them is desynced and cannot get it to resync.
>
> The long story: we got 5 DCs splitted over several sites. Recently we 
> had to replace one of them (let's call him DC5). Since both had to run 
> in parallel for data recovery/users work we decided to join a brand 
> new DC (DC6) and latter demote the second one (DC5). Where things get 
> even more complicated is that once DC5 has been removed we put DC6 on 
> its IP (following wiki). We performed some cleanup in the DNS and all 
> was beautiful, data got replicated. However I just realized that a 
> completly different DC (say DC3) didn't catch the replacement. 
> samba-tool drs showrepl reports errors where we can see the no-more 
> existing DC and a DNS query returns the old DC6 address. Is there a 
> way to force replication (even by copying files manually)? samba-tools 
> drs replicate fails miserably without any meaningful error.
>
> Thanks in advance
>