[Samba] FMSO transfer gone wrong
Arne Zachlod
arne at nerdkeller.org
Sun Apr 5 17:47:19 UTC 2020
On 4/5/20 7:14 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 05/04/2020 17:47, Arne Zachlod via samba wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently in the process of updating our Samba environment from
>> 4.3 to 4.11. Looks like I did something wrong. Some pointers would be
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> Since I wanted to migrate from Ubuntu to Debian anyway, I decided to
>> not upgrade in place, but instead create new VMs, join them and then
>> remove the old 4.3 ones. Everything went well until I also wanted to
>> transfer FSMO roles to a new VM.
>>
>> Since 'samba-tool fsmo transfer --role=all' didn't work, I decided to
>> use seize instead. There was no error output other than the expected
>> error that the transfer didn't work and I shut the old FSMO master DC
>> down.
>>
>> So, now nothing really works as expected: the other DCs didn't get the
>> memo to change to the new FSMO master DC and I cant find any
>> documentation on how to change that by hand.
>>
>> Also, drs showrepl request take forever to finish on the now
>> disconnected DCs while they just timeout on the FSMO master.
>
> Hmm, 4.3.x to 4.11.0, are smbd & winbind running, or is just samba
> running ?
Samba, winbind and smbd are all running.
>
> Your new DC could be re-indexing, if so just wait.
How can I verify this? The Domain isn't very big, sub 100 PCs and
roughly the same amount of users, so I expect it shouldn't take very long.
Arne
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