[Samba] Desynced DC

[Achim Gottinger]

Yes they are, see samba-tool drs replicate -h.



Am 24.02.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Achim Gottinger:
> Have you tried to replicate with the --sync-forced and --full-sync 
> options?
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> Am 24.02.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Sébastien Le Ray:
>> Hi list,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>
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