[Samba] Demote Win2008R2 DC Fail

[Rowland penny]

On 11/07/16 21:43, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 11/07/16 21:38, Jason Waters wrote:
>> Didn't his second email show the output of fsmo show?  Which showed 
>> all 7 roles.  But you are correct, making sure things are actually 
>> there before he kills the old one is best!
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org 
>> <mailto:rpenny at samba.org>> wrote:
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>>     On 11/07/16 21:06, Jason Waters wrote:
>>
>>         It did show that he had all 7 but that is a good point. I
>>         would shutdown the 2008 server and make sure users can login,
>>         etc....
>>
>>
>>     I haven't seen the OP saying  that the Samba  DC is showing all
>>     the 7 FSMO roles and I would like to know. I need to know what, if
>>     anything, is different on an AD DC, DNS wise.
>>
>>     Rowland
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> Rats, I sometimes hate Thunderbird, it was hidden by a 'show quoted 
> text', yes it does look like his Samba DC has all the FSMO roles, 
> provided his Samba DC is called 'GTESTE2'
>
> Rowland

OK, I did a bit of googling and it seems that this is not just a Samba 
problem, see here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/b1af276f-1a12-4a78-8ea3-f49ab04844ea/the-directory-service-is-missing-mandatory-configuration-information-and-is-unable-to-determine-the?forum=winserverDS

Read right to the bottom, I think the answer is there.

Rowland