[Samba] Winbind bind logic

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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ww m-pubsyssamba wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| 	can anyone tell me the logic behind which DC winbind will
| bind to in a 2000/3 AD domain? Is this in anyway linked to the DC
| listed in krb5.conf or does winbind understand W2K sites (defined
| groups of network ranges) or some other logic?
|
| Also can anyone tell me how often winbind updates/re-reads users
| & groups from the AD, and is this configurable?

You can define a preferred server using the 'password server'.
We don't implement support for sites currently.  Sorry.  It is
on the todo list though.

But there is no way to define preferred servers for trusted
domains so we rely on DNS (or WINS) lookups.





cheers, jerry
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