[Samba] Problem with a domain controller that is located in a separate site

Kees van Vloten keesvanvloten at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 09:03:37 UTC 2024


On 10-10-2024 10:35, Adam Abramson via samba wrote:
> it turns out that the main thing that is needed for replication is the
> created connections? And everything else is already samba magic? I just
> tried the same trick on the windows side and it seems like after some time
> this attribute was still filled in, but I may be wrong, it turns out that
> this is the norm for samba and should not interfere with full functioning?

This video from SambaXP 2024 explains how stuff gets replicated: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2YIGSDkjOE

- Kees.
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 11:20 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:58:46 +0300
>> Adam Abramson <abramsona30 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> And how does replication occur if repsTo is not filled, does it turn
>>> out that replication from a local DC should not occur to a remote DC
>>> in another site, or am I not thinking about this quite correctly?
>>>
>> It is my understanding that replication does not rely on the repsTo
>> attribute, there is deeper underlying code that carries this out, but
>> if repsTo is set, then the DC will always replicate everything to the
>> DC (which will be a local DC in its 'site')  in that attribute before
>> all others.
>>
>> Or I could just say it is magic ;-)
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>
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