[Samba] How to Make SMB server authenticate against multiple ADserver

[intel Man]

password server = alg-conyers-ad1 NEXTSERVER

Cheers
Luis Rivera
Lima-Peru


>From: "Parker, Michael" <Michael.Parker at AcuityBrands.com>
>To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Subject: [Samba] How to Make SMB server authenticate against multiple 
>ADserver
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:35:16 -0500
>
>I'm new to samba and I'm still trying to figure out the workings.  I
>currently have a few servers setup to authenticate with AD (2003 domain)
>with winbind.  Right now, I have a line in my smb.conf file that states
>password server = alg-conyers-ad1.  I assume this tells it to
>authenticate against this server only.  How do I make it choose a server
>from DNS or at the least tell it to use other AD servers if this one is
>offline?  My fear is that we'll rely on these servers more, AD1 will
>fail, and then I'll have to scramble to point my smb servers to use
>other AD servers.
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>
>Michael
>
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