samba - Nov 2020 - AD Joining Failed in middle

Hi Experts ,

Wanted to Join Samba 4.13 to Win2K as ADC on Samba box of 4vcpu/16 GB 
RAm . It failed while "committing SAM database" , which took few hours
.

Need Advice for

  * How can we rejoin , what are steps needs to perform at Win2K side
    for cleanup ?
  * Why "Committing SAM Database " taking so much of time for 2K Users
    and 3K Computers ? How can we Reduce the time taken ?

TIA

Biswajit

On 04/11/2020 09:09, Biswajit Banerjee via samba wrote:
> Hi Experts ,
>
> Wanted to Join Samba 4.13 to Win2K as ADC on Samba box of 4vcpu/16 GB 
> RAm . It failed while "committing SAM database" , which took few
hours .
>
> Need Advice for
>
> ?* How can we rejoin , what are steps needs to perform at Win2K side
> ?? for cleanup ?
> ?* Why "Committing SAM Database " taking so much of time for 2K
Users
> ?? and 3K Computers ? How can we Reduce the time taken ?
>
> TIA
>
> Biswajit
>
By 'Win2K' I take it you are referring to a Windows 2000 DC, this uses a
different dns system to the one that a Samba AD DC uses. I think you 
will have to upgrade your 'Win2K' to a 2003 DC first then upgrade the 
dns, see here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/817470/how-to-reconfigure-an-msdcs-subdomain-to-a-forest-wide-dns-application

Rowland

My Apologies

It is? Windows 2008 AD


On 04/11/20 3:38 pm, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 04/11/2020 09:09, Biswajit Banerjee via samba wrote:
>> Hi Experts ,
>>
>> Wanted to Join Samba 4.13 to Win2K as ADC on Samba box of 4vcpu/16 GB 
>> RAm . It failed while "committing SAM database" , which took
few hours .
>>
>> Need Advice for
>>
>> ?* How can we rejoin , what are steps needs to perform at Win2K side
>> ?? for cleanup ?
>> ?* Why "Committing SAM Database " taking so much of time for
2K Users
>> ?? and 3K Computers ? How can we Reduce the time taken ?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Biswajit
>>
> By 'Win2K' I take it you are referring to a Windows 2000 DC, this
uses
> a different dns system to the one that a Samba AD DC uses. I think you 
> will have to upgrade your 'Win2K' to a 2003 DC first then upgrade
the
> dns, see here:
>
>
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/817470/how-to-reconfigure-an-msdcs-subdomain-to-a-forest-wide-dns-application
>
>
> Rowland
>
>
>