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

Christian Naumer christian.naumer at greyfish.net
Thu Oct 10 10:59:41 UTC 2024


Have you tried running "samba_kcc"? Just this command and nothing else. 
For me it did create the topology.

Regards

Christian


Am 10.10.24 um 12:48 schrieb Adam Abramson via samba:
> thanks for the video provided, I watched it, I didn't understand
> something very well, but still, as I understand it,
> in order for the sites to start communicating with each other,
> a linked site link is needed, and also if there is
> only one dc on the site, we tell him to act as breadgehead, which I
> did in the screenshots below, but this did not affect the creation of
> ntdsconnections, but as I understand it, replication somehow functions
> anyway, maybe there are some guesses why ntds connection is not being
> created?
> win2019-1 sites and services
> https://ibb.co/QMbFy4J
> https://ibb.co/7n28sZP
> https://ibb.co/gM2BC8r
> https://ibb.co/S3nfWfz
> https://ibb.co/dgMJs1h
> win2019-2 sites and services
> https://ibb.co/BngP67j
> https://ibb.co/FDRCxgB
> 
> I am observing a discrepancy in the data
> 
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 1:24 PM Adam Abramson <abramsona30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> thanks for the video provided, I watched it, I didn't understand
>> something very well, but still, as I understand it, in order for the sites
>> to start communicating with each other, a linked site link is needed, and
>> also if there is only one dc on the site, we tell him to act as
>> breadgehead, which I did in the screenshots below, but this did not affect
>> the creation of ntdsconnections, but as I understand it, replication
>> somehow functions anyway, maybe there are some guesses why ntds connection
>> is not being created?
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:04 PM Kees van Vloten via samba <
>> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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