[Samba] after demoting a dc question
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Sun Nov 19 21:22:48 UTC 2017
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:57:38 -0600
Robert Wooden via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> In the event demoting a DC caused an issue due to an error (yes, on
> the user part) could the demoted DC be re-joined to allow correction
> of the issue?
>
> Or should one never rejoin a demoted DC?
>
In theory, you should be able to demote a DC, clean everything up and
re-join it to the domain. Unfortunately there have been a lot of reports
of this not working, so I would change its hostname and IP before
attempting the join.
Rowland
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