[Samba] Mutex lock contention against Active directory domain controllers causing authentication failures

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:39:46PM +0000, Bell D. wrote:
> We are using Samba 3.4.6 (packaged by opencsw.org) against
> Active Directory 2003 on our primary University filestore.
> The operating system is Solaris 10 Update 10. We have a
> number of domain controllers. For the past two days on our
> main filestore has been failing connections from a number
> of clients.

Try running winbind. You don't need id mapping or nsswitch,
but winbind serving as a proxy to the DC might help you.

Volker

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