[Samba] Determine PDC

[Rowland penny]

On 23/07/2019 21:11, Robert A Wooldridge wrote:
>
>
> On 07/23/2019 03:09 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> A PDC doesn't have any FSMO roles, only an AD DC can hold FSMO roles 
>> and there are 7 of those:
>>
>> SchemaMaster
>> InfrastructureMaster
>> RidAllocationMaster
>> PdcEmulationMaster
>> DomainNamingMaster
>> DomainDnsZonesMaster
>> ForestDnsZonesMaster
>>
>> There is (as you can see above) a role called 'PDC Emulator' but this 
>> has nothing to do with a PDC.
>>
>> The roles do not need to be all on one DC, in fact, if you have 7 
>> DCs, you could have an FSMO role on each DC.
>>
>> To see which DC holds which FSMO role, you can run on a DC:
>>
>> samba-tool fsmo show
> Yes I transferred all of the 5 roles to athena.  But when I do an 
> online backup I get this error:

Did you actually read my last post ????

If you only transferred 5 of the roles, which of the SEVEN roles did you 
not transfer ?

>
> Cloned domain EDM (SID S-1-5-21-3542663288-2793937080-3903977496)
> ERROR(<type 'exceptions.IndexError'>): uncaught exception - list index 
> out of range
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", 
> line 177, in _run
>     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain_backup.py", line 
> 237, in run
>     new_sid = get_sid_for_restore(remote_sam)
>   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain_backup.py", line 
> 73, in get_sid_for_restore
>     rid = int(res[0].get('rIDNextRID')[0])

Try creating a user (you can delete it later if you don't need it), it 
looks like your rid pool isn't set up.

Rowland