[Samba] DC outage

[Urs Golla]

Hi Michael

Thats what I thought after reading the manual again. is this entry
needed for joining? as far as i remember, the join was not working
when i had no pw server defined. hm... i will test again.

cheers

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Michael Adam <ma at sernet.de> wrote:
> Hi Urs,
>
> you should not set any specific password server in the smb.conf
> if you want DC failover to work. Instead, leave it at the default,
> which is *, so that dns lookups of srv records is enabled.
>
> Cheers, Michael
>
> Urs Golla wrote:
>> it is the latest stable from sernet for rhel4 32bit
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:05:48PM +0200, Urs Golla wrote:
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> We had an outage of one of our domain controllers today and all Linux
>> >> servers have lost their connection to the ADS. I always thought
>> >> winbind should switch to another DC if one is not reachable anymore.
>> >> The windows servers in the same domain switched to a new one. do i
>> >> have to specify more than 1 password server in smb.conf?
>> >
>> > No you shouldn't. What version of Samba is this ?
>> >
>> > Jeremy.
>> >
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