[RFC][WIP] cache-only name lookups in smbd

Volker Lendecke vl at samba.org
Wed Nov 30 11:02:20 UTC 2016


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:41:49PM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> In any case, I can see how relying on winbindd cache is a bad idea,
> because it is being accessed in the child winbind process, and that can
> be blocked by another request if the DC connection is flaky, so I really
> haven't fixed anything with this patch. I'll try the id-mapping-like
> approach (even though id-mapping still goes to winbind, but terminates
> at the parent if cached).

If you look at smbd, we *should* look into gencache first before
asking winbind. wbinfo is different of course.

Volker



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