[Samba] password change problem and no logon servers available

[John Drescher]

> we are using SAMBA 3.6.1-1 (updating this archlinux machine is tooo ugly)
> and 3.6.6-1 on archlinux with the LDAP (Server version is 2.4.26-3) backend
> and manage the users, groups and computer by using the smbldap-tools.
>
> Currently we are experiencing the following problems:
>
> 1. changing the passwords takes longer than 30 seconds <- That's bad
> because we are using a gigabit ethernet network!
> 2. sometimes windows tells us that the user can't change their passwords at
> the current point of time
> 3. sometimes windows foces the users to change their passwords (we never
> told samba to do it!)
> 4. sometimes windows tells us that there are no logon server available!
>
> Are there any known bugs regarding to these problems? Do you need further
> information to investigate this problem?
>

I do not have any of these bugs on my samba3 based network at work. I
believe my PDC and BDCs are samba-3.5.X and I am using the last
released openldap 2.3.X release on all 3 ldap servers.



John