[Samba] Changing the IP Address of a Samba AD DC doesn't work - samba_dnsupdate crashes

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:33:59 +0200
Julian Timm via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Rowland!
> 

> 
> 1. I mean: Old IP: 192.168.18.201 - New IP: 192.168.68.201 (i did
> just copy and paste and forget to change the ip)

OK
> 
> 2. I see that "ks" is a typo in my smb.conf! It should be "oplocks =
> no"! I'will change that!

Try running 'samba-tool testparm' and fix any errors it flags up.

> 
> 3. Yes this is a domain with only one DC
> 
> 4. At the moment i've no time to update the server to a newer
> Ubuntu/Samba version, so i hope we can get this work with Ubuntu
> 14.04.5 
> 

Pity really, there is a known problem with samba_dnsupdate, the
problem is, it doesn't always work ;-)
The latest version has a new option '--use-samba-tool' and this does
seem to work.

Rowland