[Samba] 4 DC's to downgrade

[Luke Barone]

Glad you figured it out. It's very rare to want to go back to an old minor
version, so that's why we thought it was weird.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:14 PM, ray klassen via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Looks like it was the samba install that caused the problem, but not which
> version. For reasons that I won't go into one of the DC's had lost the _
> msdcs.domain.com record and replication went to pot. Fixed the problem,
> we'll see how it goes.
>
>     On Thursday, 23 March 2017, 21:35, ray klassen via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Okay I didn't read that. surprised that it should work with the databases
> as is. The dbcheck function was quite involved when it was run on the
> 4.5.5. update.
>
>
>     On Thursday, 23 March 2017, 20:21, Ray Klassen <
> julius_ahenobarbus at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>  After upgrade massive slowdown network wide. Does not make sense that
> it's the samba, but I've nothing left. Question remains. Is my method
> sound?After upgrade massive slowdown network wide. Does not make sense that
> it's the samba, but I've nothing left. Question remains. Is my method sound?
>
>
> On Mar 23, 2017 4:50 PM, Andrew Bartlett via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 23:16 +0000, ray klassen via samba wrote:
> > > all currently 4.5.5 want to downgrade them all to 4.4.12. What's the
> > > best method?
> > >
> > > I'm thinking that if I stop before install, remove all the right ldb
> > > files, install and rejoin, that should do it for everything but the
> > > fsmo master.
> > >
> > > if I transfer all the roles to a new 4.4.12 dc, and do as above that
> > > will take care of that one and we will all be over to the new "old"
> > > version
> >
> > It should be possible simply to run Samba with Samba 4.4 on the current
> > databases, but as Luke asks, I would like to understand what makes you
> > want to jump back that far.  Samba 4.6 was just released, which puts
> > Samba 4.4 on security support only.  Naturally it is also missing a lot
> > of important fixes we have made in the last year.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
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