[Samba] Join a subdomain DC to a domain DC

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 16:05 -0200, Elias Pereira via samba wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I work at an institution where the domain is institute.edu.br. We have a
> main dns that answers for the internal and external services that we have.
> 
> Firstly the staff here configured samba as domain institute.edu.br, but
> this way it is conflicting in the resolution of internal and external
> service names, since samba wants to respond for all requests and, even
> inserting a forward zone, does not it works.
> 
> I configured a new DC as a subdomain, because in this way samba only
> responds to your requests and forward all the rest to the main dns. It
> became addc.institute.edu.br
> 
> My question is whether there is any impediment in joining the domindom to
> the domain, transferring the fsmo roles and then demote the old one?

Sadly what you need is the ability to rename a Samba domain, and this
isn't something we support yet. 

Sorry,

Andrew Bartlett
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