[Samba] Error demote

[Rowland penny]

On 19/09/2019 11:29, Trenta sis via samba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> during a demote of an online and working DC I receive this error
> dsreplicasync failed (8440 'werr_ds_dra_bad_nc')
>
> Any suggestion where could be the issue, server is not really demoted
>
> Server is samba 4.4.5 and other server that has fsmo roles is 4.10.7
>
> Thanks
>
I take it you are trying to demote the 4.4.5 version, if so, run the 
demote command on the 4.10.7 version BUT add 
'--remove-other-dead-server=<the hostname of the 4.4.5 version>'

Rowland