[Samba] Transferring FSMO Roles to Server 2008 R2 DC

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:38:03 +0200
Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:

> Am 18.10.2016 um 23:00 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> >>> 3. RE: FSMO Roles section: This section references Transferring
> >>> and seizing FSMO_Roles wiki article, which points to
> >>> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/324801 to do
> >>> this the MS way.
> >>> This only addresses the first 5 roles shown in samba-tool
> >>> fsmo show. In order to move DomainDnsZonesMasterRole
> >>> and ForestDnsZonesMasterRole, the following steps are necessary:
> >>> ...
> >>
> >> Isn't this something users find in Windows documentation? This is
> >> not something special caused by Samba.
> > 
> > As I said, this is something you can do on a Samba DC. but not on a
> > windows DC.
> 
> 
> How do Windows admins transfer the two extra roles? Or are they
> automatically transferred with one of the other ways?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
> 

They seem to resort to writing their own scripts or using one of the
number of scripts you can find on the internet.

Rowland