[Samba] Active Directory domain controller authentication order

Chris Howells chris+samba at chrishowells.co.uk
Tue Mar 9 13:47:31 MST 2010


Hi,

Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> which is backwards.  I'm not even certain where to check what they are
> actually attempting to authenticate against,

echo %LOGONSERVER% at the DOS prompt will tell you.

 > but whenever a VPN tunnel we
> have to an upstream office breaks, logins and file share browsing and other
> stuff slows to a crawl.

I believe that you can use the option

"init logon delay"

To forcibly make remote Sambas announce reply more slowly to broadcasts 
and make them less likely to become the logon server.


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