CVS update: samba/source/nsswitch

[Tim Potter]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:20:27PM -0800, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > There's a different type of fix for this in HEAD.  If the machine account
> > password is changed within a certain time period (set to 3600s in HEAD -
> > too long!) then use the PDC instead of a BDC.
> 
> That doesn't solve the problem.
> 
> At connectathon we had a PDC and a BDC, both Win2000 servers. When a
> new user was added to the PDC it didn't show up in wbinfo for over 5
> minutes because the PDC and BDC were not running their replication
> protocol often enough and Samba had chosen to talk to the PDC.

Surely that's then a problem with the setup of the win2k servers.
Why bother having BDC's at all if you are always going to talk
to the PDC?

> > I'm a bit concerned about putting too much load on the PDC in large
> > domains.
> 
> very true, but waiting 5 minutes for user changes to show up isn't
> really acceptable :)

Maybe.  I thought it was a property of a polling based method of
updating a distributed database.  It's a bit of a contrived situation
though - having a PDC and BDC on the same network with no client
machines.


Tim.