[Samba] Problem with a domain controller that is located in a separate site
Adam Abramson
abramsona30 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 12:43:49 UTC 2024
I created the three entities that you told me to create and all of them
were successfully replicated from samba dc to win2019-2. There were no
problems
On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 2:48 PM James Atwell via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Adam,
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> I suggest adding a user, dns hostname(A record), and computer on the Samba
> server and see if it gets replicated on the win2019-2 sever.
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> You can force replication by following the wiki here.
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Manually_Replicating_Directory_Partitions
> if the above doesn’t work.
>
>
>
> -James
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> From: Adam Abramson <abramsona30 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2024 5:22 AM
> To: james.atwell365 at gmail.com
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem with a domain controller that is located in a
> separate site
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>
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> Hi, James, I did everything as you said, deleted all samba and win2019-2
> connections on all domain controllers, after that I waited until they were
> all restored, but the outbound neighbors did not appear, maybe it makes
> sense to force them to display in some way? or any other ideas about this?
>
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> On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 7:45 PM James Atwell via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org> > wrote:
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba <samba-bounces at lists.samba.org <mailto:
> samba-bounces at lists.samba.org> > On Behalf Of Rowland
> > Penny via samba
> > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2024 11:56 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Cc: Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org <mailto:rpenny at samba.org> >
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem with a domain controller that is located in
> a
> > separate site
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:37:15 -0400
> > James Atwell via samba <samba at lists.samba.org <mailto:
> samba at lists.samba.org> > wrote:
> >
> > > Do Samba logs show any errors with replication?
> >
> > Probably not, because in his initial post, he said replication was
> working, but
> > 'repsTo' wasn't populated.
> >
> > Rowland
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> Hi Rowland,
>
> I seen that, but that appears to come from a screenshot using ADSI Edit
> when
> I reviewed the thread. I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time.
>
> The attribute repsTo is optional but it most cases should exists once a
> replication partner has been established and actual replication takes
> place.
> Reviewing the thread, I show initially Adam didn't have NTDS auto generated
> connections to his Samba and Microsoft servers. He lowered the replication
> time in the site link to 15 minutes(I wouldn't leave at that value) which
> triggered the KCC and successfully created the NTDS connections on both.
> The establishment of NTDS connections don't automatically trigger the
> repsTo
> field to be populated. The KCC determines how replication occurs, but it
> doesn't necessarily mean that outbound replication is actively occurring.
> Even though Adam said replication was working.
>
> It appears that the connection is primarily being used for inbound
> replication or that the DC has not recently replicated changes to the
> neighbor DC. I asked Adam to delete the NTDS connections and see if they
> get
> reestablished on both DC's. If they do, I suggest next he add a user, dns
> hostname, and computer on the Samba server and see if it gets replicated on
> the Windows sever. Having verbose logging on during this time would be
> helpful. These changes should trigger the repsTo attribute to become
> populated.
>
> I've seen in my own experience happen but only with a Samba environment.
> When it did occur, I did the above except I used the samba-tool drs
> replicate command to force the population of inbound and outbound
> neighbors.
>
>
> -James
>
>
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