[Samba] How to move DC to other Server

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:51:06 +0200
Dirk Laurenz via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> moving to a temporary server could help?
> 
> what i mean is:
> 
> trasnfer fsmo roles to samba02
> 
> join temp01
> 
> demote old samba01
> 
> bring up new samba01
> 
> join samba01
> 
> remote temp01
> 
> 
> correct? this should work?
> 

This is just a variation of what I suggested, but it does raise the
valid point, do not rely on a machines hostname in a script.

You will also have to make sure that ALL mention of the original DC
is removed from AD, before you join the new one.

Rowland