[Samba] ERROR: Transfer of 'pdc' role failed: Failed FSMO transfer: WERR_GEN_FAILURE

[Rowland penny]

On 22/01/2021 13:50, Matthias Leopold via samba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I transferred FSMO roles between two DCs for the first time (in the 
> course of version upgrade from 4.12 to 4.13 including DC demote). I 
> did it twice (once transferring to 4.13 from 4.12, once between all 
> 4.13). In both cases I got an error when transferring the PDC role:
>
> # samba-tool fsmo transfer --role=pdc
> ERROR: Transfer of 'pdc' role failed: Failed FSMO transfer: 
> WERR_GEN_FAILURE
>
> The transfer actually seems to succeed (when checking "samba-tool fsmo 
> show" afterwards). In logs of "losing" DC I see:
>
> [2021/01/22 14:30:44.080710,  0] 
> ../../source4/rpc_server/drsuapi/getncchanges.c:1413(getncchanges_change_master)
>   ../../source4/rpc_server/drsuapi/getncchanges.c:1413: FSMO role or 
> RID manager transfer owner request when not role owner
>
> I'm not 100% sure this is from PDC role transfer, could theoretically 
> also be from other (succeeding) transfers.
>
> Samba packages are from Sernet, OS is CentOS 8.
>
> Why is this? Do I have to worry?
>
> thx
> Matthias
>
>
>
What does 'samba-tool fsmo show' list ?

Are the correct FSMO role owners shown ?

Rowland