[Samba] Re: winbind-client: irregular "Connection reset by peer" errors when using Win 2003 server

[Alexander Menk]

Hi!

Gerald (Jerry) Carter schrieb:
> Alexander Menk wrote:
>>> I've integrated samba into an existing NT Domain managed 
>>> by a windows 2003 server. Recently I'm have trouble
>>> to use the "groups" command get the group of domain
>>> users. It worked well for weeks (but perhaps after
>>> setting up an ldap-connection to the same server via 
>>> the apache2 module auth_ldap), there are irregular
> 
> Winbindd and apache don't share ldap sessions.

yes .. but I thought there could be a conflict or s.th. like that.

>>> connection-losses, so winbind seems not to be able
>>> to retrieve the groupnames. Sure, there are some possible
>>> workarounds, but it would be nice to have a stable 
>>> connection to the DC. Perhaps there is any nice
>>> way to auto-resume that winbind-lookup-connection?
> 
> Seems like the DC dropping what it thinks are
> idle connections.  We should reconnect.  Could you test
> 3.0.25pre1 and let me know if that behaves any better?

It's complicated for me to test this version on the same server. Perhaps
I should set up a test-box to use that. Is that reconnect-feature new to
3.0.25pre1 ? Do you refer to any known bug in versions before 3.0.25pre1
concerning this problem?

Thanks,
  Alex