[Samba] Desynced DC [SOLVED]

[Achim Gottinger]

Glad it helped. Guess it did not work because of the old dns record at 
the desynced dc.

Am 25.02.2016 um 14:47 schrieb Sébastien Le Ray:
> Hi again,
>
> The --local option did the trick. But I can see why
> samba-tool drs replicate desynced-dc.my.domain sane-dc.my-domain 
> dc=ad,dc=my,dc=domain
> fails while
> samba-tool drs replicate desynced-dc.my.domain sane-dc.my-domain 
> dc=ad,dc=my,dc=domain --local
> works like a charm (desynced-dc.ad.finsecur.lan resolves correctly)
>
> Anyway, sync seem to be up & running again, thank you very much
>
> Le 25/02/2016 12:45, Achim Gottinger a écrit :
>> Yes they are, see samba-tool drs replicate -h.
>>
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>> Am 24.02.2016 um 16:24 schrieb 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
>>>>
>>>
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