[Samba] Cleanup after site deleted

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Jul 29 13:03:45 UTC 2019


On 29/07/2019 13:44, Roy Eastwood via samba wrote:
> Some time ago I created two sites in AD using RSAT tools.    Recently the need for these separate sites has gone, so I removed all
> the servers and workstations etc from these sites and put them back into 'Default-First-Site-Name' and deleted the sites.   I have
> just noticed that the DNS Manager is still showing one of the sites remaining (the other has disappeared).   Whilst it is possible
> to delete the individual entries, the site hierarchy remains, and attempting to delete the <site-name> using DNS Manager results in
> "The DNS domain cannot be deleted.   This function is not supported on this system.".  For example:
>
> <server>
> |_Forward Lookup Zones
>       |_<dns-domain>
>           |_ _sites
>               |_<site-name>
>               |   |_ _tcp
>               |
>               |_Default-First-Site-Name
It looks to me that '<site-name>' has a child (tcp) and you cannot 
delete an object if it has a child.
>
>
> etc.      Shouldn't samba clean up after itself?     How can this be cleaned up manually?

Does Windows clean up after itself ?

Try deleting the child.

Rowland





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