[Samba] Winbind problem when heavy loaded ...

[Andrew Bartlett]

Juer Lee wrote:
> 
> Hello, Sambas,
> 
> Recently, I met a problem with my Samba 2.2.3a server.
> It is configured as a Domain Member, sometimes I couldn't get user list
> from PDC ( a Win2k server), but it come up again soon , say 5 seconds.
> I had thought it is PDC's problem, but it seems PDC is fine. Are there
> any other reasons will cause that?

Try Samba 2.2.5 - it includes a much improved winbindd, which does much
better connection caching.  The same issue is addressed in smbd by a
mutex.

(These work around NT/Win2k bugs).

Andrew Bartlett

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