[Samba] Unable to transfer ForestDns/DomainDNS

[Rowland penny]

On 07/07/16 13:56, Jason Waters wrote:
> So I continue to struggle getting this moved away from windows 2003 to
> samba.  I've been working in VM's to test before doing it on production.  I
> think something is just wrong/broken with my windows 2003 AD.  These are a
> couple of the things I have tried.
>
> - Going from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 to Samba
> - Seizing the roles and then joining another samba domain controller.  But
> I'm unable to move the DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones fsmo's to the new
> samba box.  Like it is coping bad data.
> - Setup a new domain with samba, joined Windows 2008 and migrated
> everything around fine!  Another reason why I think something is wrong in
> my data.
>
>
> So the last thing I've been trying to figure out is why the command
> ldbsearch --cross-ncs -H ldap://pdc -b
> "DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=fisherthompson,DC=local" -s sub -Uadministrator
>
> returns a referral instead of the records.  On my purely stock samba domain
> it works fine, so something about the windows 2003 ad?

I think it must be, on my DC it dumps all the domain DNS records. What 
does it actually return ?

Rowland

>
> But if I open ASDIEDIT and connect to
> DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=fisherthompson,DC=local on the windows 2003 DC I see
> everything like I should.....
>
>
> It seems like samba and ldbtools isn't following the referrals.  Or they
> shouldn't be referrals?  Or something else that I have no idea about!
>
> Any other suggestions?  Thanks!
>
> Jason
>
>