[Samba] Demoting offline DC on 4.3.11-Ubuntu

[Mickey Bankhead]

Good to know that < 4.4 does not allow dead DC demoting...

as far as Ubuntu samba verison - 4.3.11 is the one that came with my fresh
16.04.2 (latest ubuntu LTS). and I did post a question in the Ubuntu forum
- Someone responded and confirmed their being "far behind" in Ubuntu
updates...

Thank you for your helpful response!

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Mickey,
>
> Am 06.04.2017 um 00:50 schrieb Mickey Bankhead via samba:
>
>> I thought I would  shut down the old 2k8 broken DC and the 4.1.6 DC
>> servers, and then demote these "offline" servers?  BUT The samba.org
>> howto
>> for demoting offline servers
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Demoting_a_Samba_AD_DC
>> says if you are running older than samba 4.4, then upgrade samba first
>> before demoting offline servers.   -  well - I am already running the
>> latest Ubuntu "official" samba - 4.3.11 -- Does this mean I should NOT try
>> and demote until I upgrade to 4.4?
>>
>
> Version prior 4.4 do not support demoting a remote server
> (--remove-other-dead-server).
>
> If you need to demote the DC this way, you must update first.
>
>
>
> > Ubuntu does not supply 4.4 yet - so I'd have to install from source -
> > which I hate to do on a production server because I then have to
> > manually maintain updates forever (instead of just running apt-get to
> > update)...
>
> You don't have to do it forever. You can always switch back, but you
> should not downgrade when doing the switch.
>
> Does Ubuntu really not provide any newer packages? I mean 4.3 is the last
> series we support and it's EOL when 4.7 comes out. Or do you run an older
> Ubuntu version. Then consider upgrading. Newer versions also include much
> better AD support and maybe fixes your Win 2k8 problem if you retry joining.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
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