On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:19 +0000, Chris Lewis wrote: > On 11/01/13 12:22, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 16:50 +0000, Chris Lewis wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I have joined a samba4 instance to en existing W2k8 AD domain as an > >> additional domain controller. > >> > >> When I do > >> > >> samba-tool dbcheck > >> > >> I get (example) : > >> > >> ERROR: wrong instanceType 4 on CN=INVIEW-DC2,OU=Domain > >> Controllers,DC=inview,DC=local, should be 0 > >> Not changing instanceType from 4 to 0 on CN=INVIEW-DC2,OU=Domain > >> Controllers,DC=inview,DC=local > >> > >> > >> This happens for 644 out of 655 of the objects in directory. I have > >> attempted to fix one or two less important objects and the error does > >> not appear again. > >> > >> Before I go ahead and fix them all, I want to find out whether doing > >> this would have any unwanted ramifications? > >> > >> Can anyone explain what causes these errors and if fixing them might > >> break something? > > That's a very interesting question. 0 seems the wrong value, if you are > > a read-write DC. > > > > I suspect we are getting the domain join stuff wrong, so we then trigger > > this incorrectly in dbcheck. > > > > Andrew Bartlett > Hi Andrew, > > For info: > > I did some further comparisons with the test environment and found that > the production environment was set to Windows 2000 Domain & Windows 2000 > Forest functional levels. I changed the the domain functional level to > windows 2003 (which the test environment was on), and re-added the > additional domain controller. > > I then got no errors in the samba-tool dbcheck and this also seemed to > fix another problem with replication I was experiencing.
Thanks for the extra information. Can you please file a bug about this for me? Thanks, -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
