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2019 Jul 23
4
Determine PDC
I put samba on my network last week as a DC and then I transfered all 5
FSMO roles which I thought made it the PDC.? But now I'm not sure
because trying to do a backup fails.? Is there a way to determine which
machine is the PDC of a domain?
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Bob Wooldridge
EDM Incorporated
2019 Jul 23
0
Determine PDC
...ridge wrote:
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> On 07/23/2019 03:09 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> A PDC doesn't have any FSMO roles, only an AD DC can hold FSMO roles
>> and there are 7 of those:
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>> SchemaMaster
>> InfrastructureMaster
>> RidAllocationMaster
>> PdcEmulationMaster
>> DomainNamingMaster
>> DomainDnsZonesMaster
>> ForestDnsZonesMaster
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>> There is (as you can see above) a role called 'PDC Emulator' but this
>> has nothing to do with a PDC.
>>
>> The roles do not need to be all on one DC, in fact, if yo...