samba - Nov 2020 - AD Joining Failed in middle

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
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>
>

On 04/11/2020 12:02, Biswajit Banerjee via samba wrote:
> My Apologies
>
> It is? Windows 2008 AD
>
In which case, it should work, so what OS are you using ?

Are you using OS samba packages or have you compiled Samba yourself ?

All you really need to do is to remove the smb.conf and run the join 
command again, but, even with your number of users and groups, it 
shouldn't take hours.

Rowland

Thanks Rowland for the Reply

On 04/11/20 5:44 pm, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 04/11/2020 12:02, Biswajit Banerjee via samba wrote:
>> My Apologies
>>
>> It is? Windows 2008 AD
>>
> In which case, it should work, so what OS are you using ?
Centos 8
>
> Are you using OS samba packages or have you compiled Samba yourself ?
Complied
>
> All you really need to do is to remove the smb.conf and run the join 
> command again, but, even with your number of users and groups, it 
> shouldn't take hours.
Ok ,

As the Samba Server is visible in Windows AD , do we need to remove it ?
>
> Rowland
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