[Samba] Made a join with a netbios name, which already existed, now replication errors

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:26:39 +0200
gizmo via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
> I made a big mistake !
> We have 3 domain controllers, samba1, samba2 and samba3, all of them
> running samba "Version 4.3.11 (SerNet)" samba1 owns all fsmo-roles.
> I installed a 4th one, samba4 (Version 4.6.6 - SerNet), copied the
> smb.conf from samba3, but forgot to adapt the parameters. 
> [global]
>         workgroup = DOMAIN
>         realm = DOMAIN.UNIVERSITY.DE
>         netbios name = SAMBA3
>         interfaces = 127.0.0.1,
> ip_from_samba3 bind interfaces only = Yes
>         server role = active directory domain controller
>         dns forwarder = ip
>         idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes
>         ldap server require strong auth = no
>         time server = yes
>        
> [netlogon]
>         path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol/domain.university.de/scripts
>         read only = No
> [sysvol]
>         path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol
>         read only = No
>  
> I joined samba4 with the smb.conf from the samba3, means same
> netbios-name and interface-ip-address.

What do you mean, 'I joined samba4 with the smb.conf' ?

You don't create the smb.conf, the join as a DC should create it for
you.

Rowland