[Samba] Sites And Services Setup

[Thomas Maerz]

Another old thread I’m resurrecting; apologies, but I have also been experiencing this issue. I have 10 international remote sites over very lossy WAN links. Getting traffic to them from HQ is a challenge; them trying to talk directly each other over umpteen paths is even worse. They are able to accomplish this (somewhat) because we have a mesh VPN setup with direct site-to-site connectivity, but I constantly have replication failures on almost all my S4 DC’s because of this.

As far as I can tell, S4 is ignoring disabling the “Bridge all Site Links” button. I also read Klaus’ description of the issue and it is exactly what I am seeing. S4 is an ideal use case for remote offices because you can run it on small hardware or VMWare (or both) for free vs a Server + MS license ($2k). RODC support would be nice as well because no one is editing the directory from out there!

Has there been any development on this subject? Should I file a bug?

Thomas Maerz


> On Nov 5, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Zerwes, Klaus <zerwes at rosalux.de> wrote:
> 
>> Klaus,
>> 
>>    The only thing I haven't tried is to disable site link transitivity.
>> 
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd736189%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
> 
> I have disabled it from start on (i.e. before joining the first siteDC), as from my understanding it should be disabled to achieve the desired result of replicating only from and to the headquarter DC.
> As I noticed the problems, I have re-enabled it and run samba_kcc again, unfortunately without any differences in the result.
> 
> Hope that someone more familiar with the matter can help or at least explain what is going wrong (even if the thing that goes wrong is my mind).
> 
> Greetings
> Klaus
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