Samba-3.0.0 RC's and transitive trusts

[Ron Pagani / San Francisco / San Jose, CA]

On Sep 18, 2003, at 2:01 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:49:04AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote:
>>
>> One other thing. I don't know how usable winbindd is supposed to be 
>> yet, but
>> it's not in a usable state on our network. I find that winbindd works 
>> for
>> 5-15 minutes (once it's loaded fully), but then hangs indefinitely.  
>> i.e.
>> "wbinfo -p" works for 5-15 minutes, thereafter never returns. The 
>> initial
>> debugging upon starting winbindd shows it going off all over our WAN 
>> looking
>> up what I assume it thinks are domain controllers - but by eyeball I 
>> can say
>> those boxes aren't or aren't any more. Eventually (after 1-2 minutes) 
>> it
>> finds working domain controllers and then "wbinfo -p" starts working.
>> Perhaps we have some chronic Windows configuration issues on our 
>> network,
>> but they don't manifest themselves as far as Windows is concerned...
>
> Check what WINS records you have - query using nmblookup. I
> bet the WINS db has old records in it.
>
> Jeremy.


Jeremy, are stale cached names in the WINS server code a known issue?  
I've been seeing this in the RC builds.

Ron ;)