[Samba] Make new server the "master"

[Christian Naumer]

Do you have something like this in your smb.conf?

dns forwarder = 8.8.8.8

Regards


> Am 05.09.2020 um 23:39 schrieb Peter Pollock via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>:
> 
> ..and also, kinit fails if I don't have 192.168.4.5 as the first nameserver
> in resolv.conf
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:26 AM Rowland penny via samba <
>> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/09/2020 17:54, Peter Pollock via samba wrote:
>>> Please forgive me, I'm not sure what terminology to use here so this
>>> question may sound wrong.
>>> 
>>> I have built two servers samba servers with a new domain. They replicate
>>> happily and I can seem to do everything I could ever want on them.
>>> 
>>> DC01 holds all the FSMO roles and, as the first one built, acts as the
>>> "master" for DNS. Nothing works well on either server if DC01 is not at
>> the
>>> top of the hosts file.
>> Both DC's are dns masters, it is known as multi-master. Each DC should
>> use its own ipaddress for its nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf, so
>> something is wrong if it doesn't work.
>>> 
>>> But this is in a temporary environment and what I'd like to do is build
>> two
>>> production servers, connect them to this AD domain, get them working and
>>> then have them take over all the FSMO roles and for one of them to become
>>> the master for DNS so that I can switch off these two test servers I have
>>> built.
>> No, you lost me there, you will have two good DC's and you will add
>> another two good DC's and then turn off the first two, why ?
>>> My question is, what do I have to do to make another server the "master"?
>>> is it just transferring the FSMO roles or is there something else (apart
>>> from updating the host files on all the live servers)?
>> 
>> There is no concept of a 'master' in AD, all DC's are equal except for
>> the FSMO roles and they can be on any DC, in fact, if you had seven
>> DC's, you could have an FSMO role on each. You can transfer all the
>> roles to any DC, but it wouldn't make it the 'master', because there is
>> no master.
>> 
>> Rowland
>> 
>> 
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