[Samba] Demote Win2008R2 DC Fail

Anderson Hoffmann do Carmo anderson.hoffmann at gsurfnet.com
Tue Jul 12 12:55:07 UTC 2016


I will test this
Thanks ;-)

Anderson Hoffmann do Carmo
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2016-07-12 9:45 GMT-03:00 Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org>:

> On 12/07/16 13:33, Jason Waters wrote:
>
>> This is what I would do.
>>
>> 1. Make sure everything is off of the 2008 machine so you don't need to
>> turn it back on
>> 2. Shut down the 2008 machine
>> 2.5 Update your DNS on the samba machine to be the samba machine, not the
>> 2008 DC
>> 3. Test everything and make sure samba is fully working on your domain
>> 4. Test everything again
>> 5. Test!
>> 6. Seize the roles on your samba machine, samba-tool fsmo seize --force
>> --role=all -Uadministrator
>>           I don't think you need the -U, but just in case
>>
>
> Yes you do, it is required if you are transferring or seizing the DNS FSMO
> roles.
>
> 7. Reboot that machine and make sure everything looks good
>> 8. make sure samba-tool fsmo show, shows all 7 roles of the samba machine
>> 9. From a workstation, run the Metadata clean.vbs script.  This will
>> remove
>> the replication to the now off 2008 DC
>>
>
> This is what 'samba-tool domain demote
> --remove-other-dead-server=REMOVE_OTHER_DEAD_SERVER' does on Samba 4.4.0 up
>
> Rowland
>
> 10. Reboot the samba box
>> 11. run samba-tool drs showrepl and it shouldn't show any partners
>> 12. Once that is done you should just have samba.  You can then add more
>> DC's with
>>
>> samba-tool domain join domain.local DC -UAdministrator
>>
>> and any other options you need.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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