[Samba] Join new DC to domain - advice to upgrade Samba 4.

[Rowland penny]

On 07/04/2020 20:12, Daniel Lopes de Carvalho wrote:
> No, there is no firewall... They are on the same network without any 
> blocking...
>
> Let me tell you a little about my scenario...
>
> When I installed Samba4 as my main AD (2018), I had ADC01 that was my 
> primary DC and after I joined the ADC02 without any problem. And in 
> the beginning of 2019, I joined a Windows Server 2008 R2 as my 
> ADC03. All of them worked well until (around a year) I had a hardware 
> problem with ADC01 that I had to exec offline demote.
>
> After this problem, ADC03 is unable to sync with ADC02. I have 
> uninstalled AD on ADC03 and tried to install it again but without 
> sucess. Then I tried this new DCS01 and here I'm...
>
When you 'forcibly' demoted ADC01, what did you do about the FSMO roles ?

Rowland