[Samba] Re: Winbind dying daily

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Thomas wrote:

> (samba 3.0.2a via RPM, ADS, SuSE 9)
> 
> Every day Windbind stops responding, although the
> process is active.
> 
> When this happens, getent passwd returns just local
> users, and wbinfo -u returns "Error looking up domain
> users"
> 
> If i 'reload' winbind, nothing changes, but if I
> 'restart' it, it works again, for another day.
> 

If "for another day" means 10 hours (precisely) then this issue has been 
addressed in 3.0.3pre2 (bug #1208 on bugzilla.samba.org)... Should be 
even better in 3.0.3rc1.

I've had this exact issue and saw it go away as I moved to pre2!

Good luck

Thomas