[Samba] Domain Logins across VPN

[Anthony Messina]

rob at desynched.net wrote:
>> rob at desynched.net wrote:
>>> I've been trying to get this to work for a few days now. I read that
>>> domain requests are sent via broadcast, and to use WINS to get around
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Well, I've enabled the WINS server on my Samba PDC, and told the BDC's
>>> on
>>> each VPN segment that the PDC is a WINS server. WINS resolution works
>>> apparently, I can sit on a VPN'd network segment and ping machines
>>> across
>>> the VPN via their NETBIOS name, but I can't log into the domain. Windows
>>> tells me it can't find the domain. Is there something I'm missing?
>> sorry rob, i forgot to reply-to-all the first time.
>>
>> do you have
>>
>> domain master = no
>> domain logons = yes
>>
>> that set up works for me. and i also use
>>
>> local master = yes
>>
>> though i don't think the local master is required for bdc functionality.
>>
>> --
>> Anthony
> 
> Yeah, I have that in my conf. Actually, I got it working earlier, but I
> had to tell samba to use my master LDAP server to do it - I was hoping I
> could make samba read off of the local slave server so if the connection
> to the master was severed, domain logins would still be functional. I'll
> tool around with it some more tomorrow and see if I can make it work the
> way I intend.

hmmm...  i also use a replicated ldap server on the bdc localhost.
could you post your smb.conf and any errors you see in your samba log?

-- 
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