[Samba] Active Directory authentication very slow (winbind/PAM)

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Frank Gruman wrote:

| I have Samba authenticating to a medium-sized Windows
| 2000 Active Directory domain (approx 5000 users).
| The authentication times are  ranging from 15 to
| 30 seconds, and when trying to win acceptance for
| Linux as a stable server platform / file and
| development code  repository, this performance
| is unacceptable to many of my peers.  It is the
| same whether they authenticate through the Apache
| engine or if I add authentication to the xdm config
| and I login to KDE, or even from command line.

Frank,  Use ethereal and try to determine where the lag
is?  Is it actually during the authentication ?  Is it a
name resolution delay?  Or is it during the getpwnam()?







cheers, jerry
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