[Samba] Samba trying to connect to a non-existant DC for NTP?

[James B. Byrne]

On Wed Feb 14 19:48:49 UTC 2024 Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org wrote:

> Is there anything left in AD that refers to your removed DC ?
> If the removed DC was the holder of the PDC_Emulator FSMO role,
> that is one place I would check.

This is what I found.  It seems that the FSMO role owner is SMB4-2 but that
SMB4-1 is somehow connected:

samba-ldbsearch --cross-ncs -H /var/db/samba4/private/sam.ldb '(fsmoroleowner=*)'

# record 1
dn: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca
objectClass: top
objectClass: dMD
cn: Schema
instanceType: 13
whenCreated: 20200626203444.0Z
uSNCreated: 10
objectVersion: 47
showInAdvancedViewOnly: TRUE
name: Schema
objectGUID: ef62db27-1d5a-47a8-923d-8e9d1d3b408b
objectCategory: CN=DMD,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC
 =ca
prefixMap:
. . .
fSMORoleOwner: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Nam
 e,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca
whenChanged: 20200720185753.0Z
uSNChanged: 5322

masteredBy: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,C
 N=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca

masteredBy: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,C
 N=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca

msDs-masteredBy: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-N
 ame,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca

msDs-masteredBy: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=SMB4-2,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-N
 ame,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=brockley,DC=harte-lyne,DC=ca

. . .

Thanks,


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