[Samba] Cannot remove offline domain

[Kukreja H.Kukreja]

Hi James

I am running samba 4.6.12 on a Ubuntu server.

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> On 11 Jan 2018, at 6:08 PM, lingpanda101 via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 1/11/2018 10:25 AM, Harsh Kukreja via samba wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to remove a dead offline domain using the below command which
>> is failing
>>
>> samba-tool domain demote --remove-other-dead-server=IUMONG-RODC
>> -UAdministrator
>> ERROR: Demote failed: DemoteException: IUMONG-RODC is not an AD DC in
>> iumnet.edu.na
>> A transaction is still active in ldb context [0x2bf15b0] on
>> tdb:///var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb
>>
>> IUMONG-RODC domain is still visible under domain controllers in Active
>> Directory Users and Computers.
>>
>> Please help on how to remove all the records of this dead domain from the
>> DC.
>>
>> Thanks n Regards
>>
>> *Harsh Kukreja *Systems Administrator
>> *International University of Namibia *Tel: 061-4336000 - E-mail: h.kukreja
>> @ium.edu.na - Web:
>> *http://www.ium.edu.na <http://www.ium.edu.na/>*Private Bag
>> 14005,Bachbrech. 21-31 Hercules Street, Dorado Park, Windhoek, NAMIBIA
>
> What version of Samba are you running? There have been improvements to removing an offline DC in recent versions.
>
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