Is it possible to fork multiple child Winbindd processes and setup multiple connections to the primary DC?

[Hou, Kevin]

Hi Volker,

Thanks very much for your input! This parameter is just what I want. Would you tell me which Samba version support this parameter? Currently I'm using Samba v3.5. 

Regards,
Kevin Hou

-----Original Message-----
From: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:43 PM
To: Hou, Kevin
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to fork multiple child Winbindd processes and setup multiple connections to the primary DC?

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:27:58AM +0000, Hou, Kevin wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> As far as I know, the child Winbindd process is forked per domain and 
> only one connection to that primary DC is setup. All requests to DC go 
> through this connection sequentially.
> Is it possible to fork multiple child Winbindd processes and setup 
> multiple connections to the primary DC? If yes, we can keep those 
> connections, and requests can go to DC concurrently, which may enhance 
> Winbindd performance.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong and give some suggestion on how to 
> enhance the Winbindd performance for high through output 
> authentication validation.

Take a look at

winbind max domain connections

Volker

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