Enable ccache use in libsmbclient by default?

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Mon Jan 25 07:11:57 MST 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:01:52AM -0500, Derrell Lipman wrote:
> > If winbind is around but does not have the credentials, then
> > yes, it will be a round-trip to winbind. Should be very
> > quick, but it is a penalty. Is that acceptable?
> >
> 
> If winbind is NOT around, is it an immediate failure, or a timeout?

Pretty immediate failure.

> I think a single round-trip is acceptable. There are enough variables in
> starting up a new application that the single round-trip time is likely lost
> in the noise.

Well, there's two roundtrips: One for getting the interface
version of winbind, as always. Second the auth attempt. Very
quick though, no DC request or so.

Volker



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