[Samba] problems with sysvol aft

[Rowland Penny]

On 11/01/2023 12:35, Thorsten Marquardt via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I plan to upgrade/replace my somewhat crippled and outdated samba 4.7.4 
> domain controller. The OS is an openSUSE-Leap-42.3 which had no packages 
> for a samba-ad-dc. These packages have been introduced in successor 
> openSUSE releases starting with Leap-15.0. Leap-15.0 comes with samba 
> 4.7.11. So I set up a new Leap-15.0 host and joint it as a dc 
> controller. I set up the sysvol replication (rsync), transfered the fsmo 
> roles to the new host and switched replication source and target. 
> Everything apeared to run fine for the moment but if I stop samba on the 
> old server I'm getting trouble with the sysvol-share and I can't access 
> the gpo via the windows Group Policy Management Console. The console is 
> telling me that the old host is still the base domain controller for my 
> domain wheras samba-tool fsmo show lists all roles are served by the new 
> on.
> My plan for the future is to demote the old dc, upgrade the new one step 
> by step (Leap 15.0 ->15.1 (samba 4.9.5) -> 15.2 (samba 4.11.14)-> 15.3 
> (samba 4.15.12) -> 15.4  ) and finally to set up a new second dc for 
> failover purposes.
> 
> What can I do get these problems fixed?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 

I wonder if you are hitting this bug:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14518

Rowland