[Samba] sysvolcheck on fresh samba 4.7 DCs

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:48:37 +0200
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Mandi! mj via samba
>   In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > Once the on-disk directories matched the sam database contents,
> > things worked fine.
> 
> Ops, i've read only now. As you can see in my previous post, i've had
> the same behaviour (on jessie, but with samba 'backport' version,
> 4.5.8+dfsg-2+deb9u1~bpo8+1).
> 

You will get this behaviour with any version of Samba.

If you join a new DC to a domain that has more than the default GPOs,
you need to sync Sysvol from the first DC to the new DC. I have added
a note to the Samba 'join' wikipage about this. 

Rowland