Hi Peter, I am using 2008R2 domain, i get always the following message: http://tinypic.com/r/a1e8y/6
Thank you in advanced On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Peter Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Sérgio Henrique <[email protected]> quatschte am Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at > 10:27:17AM +0000: > > Hi Peter, > > > > I am unable to demote windows DC, i get always error when demoting > windows > > AD on ForestDNSzones and DomainDNSzones, i have tried a lot of things. > > > > Raise forest level, keep at 2003, add samba to nameservers,etc... > > Hi Sérgio, > > do you get this message: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=140itd4&s=6 ? > This message is also shown in my test environment each time I run > dcpromo to demote the Windows server. As far as I have seen it's no > issue, if the replication is up to date. > > I had issues if the operation levels were lower than 2003 and Samba was > already joined to the domain. Then the only change that was possible for > me was to raise to Windows 2000 native, but not 2003 anymore. > > What I am doing after joining Samba to the domain: > > * check the operation levels (before joining) > * check all the SRV records (usually added automatically) > * create a reverse zone if not already there > * add ns record for samba to all zones > * drink some coffee to ensure everything gets replicated > * check everything again, drink some more coffee > * again ;-) > * disable GC on the win server, running dcpromo > > but I am still testing the whole migration, no long term experience, > most of the time I reset my virtual machine and try again to ensure it > still works... > > > What i can see is that if i create a new samba4 as primary root domain > and > > then add windows AD i have no problems. > > > > But my objective is to migrate current windows domain to samba4 and not > > the opposite. > > I am sure that is working very good, but the problem is, our customers > usually already have a working Windows environment (I think a lot of us > have > exactly this problem) and we need to takeover these domains....and do not > want > to create everything from scratch ;-) > > Regards > Peter > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- Cumprimentos, Sérgio Machado -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
