samba - Oct 2024 - Problem with a domain controller that is located in a separate site

And how does replication occur if repsTo is not filled, does it turn out
that replication from a local DC should not occur to a remote DC in another
site, or am I not thinking about this quite correctly?

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 7:34?PM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:17:55 +0300
> Adam Abramson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello and forgive me for repeating the question, but it seems I didn?t
> > subscribe to the newsletter correctly, and did it again, if someone
> > answered the question below, could you duplicate it again here, for
> > further dialogue
> >
> > Hello Samba Community I have a question regarding naming contexts
> > replicated between domain controllers, the following situation
> > assumes that there is a domain controller based on Windows 2012R2, we
> > enter into this domain, a domain controller based on Samba 4.20 in a
> > separate site, in which there are no additional domain controllers,
> > and then I observe that from the Samba side the RepsTo naming
> > contexts are not set when I view them through samba-tool drs showrepl
> > even after a long time, but the replication seems to work? If anyone
> > has additional information on how Samba replication works when it is
> > alone on a separate site, I would be grateful
>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:58:46 +0300
Adam Abramson <abramsona30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And how does replication occur if repsTo is not filled, does it turn
> out that replication from a local DC should not occur to a remote DC
> in another site, or am I not thinking about this quite correctly?
> 
It is my understanding that replication does not rely on the repsTo
attribute, there is deeper underlying code that carries this out, but
if repsTo is set, then the DC will always replicate everything to the
DC (which will be a local DC in its 'site')  in that attribute before
all others.

Or I could just say it is magic ;-)

Rowland