[Samba] AD Joining Failed in middle

[Rowland penny]

On 04/11/2020 09:09, Biswajit Banerjee via samba wrote:
> Hi Experts ,
>
> Wanted to Join Samba 4.13 to Win2K as ADC on Samba box of 4vcpu/16 GB 
> RAm . It failed while "committing SAM database" , which took few hours .
>
> Need Advice for
>
>  * How can we rejoin , what are steps needs to perform at Win2K side
>    for cleanup ?
>  * Why "Committing SAM Database " taking so much of time for 2K Users
>    and 3K Computers ? How can we Reduce the time taken ?
>
> TIA
>
> Biswajit
>
By 'Win2K' I take it you are referring to a Windows 2000 DC, this uses a 
different dns system to the one that a Samba AD DC uses. I think you 
will have to upgrade your 'Win2K' to a 2003 DC first then upgrade the 
dns, see here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/817470/how-to-reconfigure-an-msdcs-subdomain-to-a-forest-wide-dns-application

Rowland