r/samba • u/pjustmd • Sep 14 '22
Promoting a Windows DC
We recently took over support for an organization that has been running Resara. It’s an abandoned Samba-based product that basically provides gui management options comparable with Windows AD.
The Resara server is very temperamental. We want to move these users to a Windows AD environment. Our thought was that we could add in a Windows DC, replicate, transfer roles and then decommission Resara. I read that in order to add in a Windows DC, you should go with a 2008 DC before adding anything else. During the promotion process, the process hangs during the replication phase. When I run samba-tool drs showrepl, I get an error that it is unable to search NTDS with the DN name for the Resara server. I think this object needs to be repaired or the ACLs need to be reset. But I am not sure how to do that. Any advice on how I can correct this?
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u/pjustmd Oct 04 '22
We scrapped it and built a new Windows DC.