[Samba] AD woes

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:04:12 +0100
Rowland penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> écrivait:

> On 22/04/2021 16:43, Emmanuel Florac via samba wrote:
> > The OLDSERVER has been decommissioned for months, so I don't
> > understand why it switched back to using it after last reboot (9
> > days ago). Apparently caching is a bit too eager :)  
> 
> 
> The problem is (as I found out yesterday), demoting a DC doesn't
> remove all its records in AD, this is also what Windows  appears to
> do, but a demoted Windows DC becomes a domain member. Samba doesn't
> set a demoted DC up as a domain member, it would require a lot more
> work. This has lead me to think that the best way to demote a DC in a
> Samba domain is to add a new DC, then just turn the old DC off and
> demote it from the new DC using the '--remove-other-dead-server'
> switch, this will remove all the old DC's records.

Does this apply if both the DCs are running some form of Windows Server?

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