[Samba] Samba member server behavior if WAN down ?

Public Le duf' aKa Demy public at ledufakademy.fr
Fri Oct 31 05:21:25 MDT 2014


No solution or experience for this issue ?
Everybody deploy samba on the same site of their ADC ?


Le 22/10/2014 15:24, Le Duf' aKa DemY a écrit :
> Le 21.10.2014 20:02, Rowland Penny a écrit :
>> On 21/10/14 18:11, Public Le duf' aKa Demy wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> we do not have DC on local site.
>>> the problem is not to have separate box for DC.
>>> The problem is that samba/winbind, do not reconnect to domain and do 
>>> not retrieve correct ACL we the WAN link is up again.
>>>
>>> We need to manually restart nas server.
>>>
>>> thank for your help,
>>>
>>> Le 21/10/2014 09:38, Sébastien Le Ray a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I guess the solution would be to have a local domain controller to 
>>>> authenticate against. But with samba < 4.2 this is quite difficult 
>>>> because of the very partial winbind implementation on Domain 
>>>> Controllers which forces you to have a separate box to be domain 
>>>> controller…
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Le 21/10/2014 09:33, mots a écrit :
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> That's where RODC's would be useful, but samba hasn't fully 
>>>>> implemented
>>>>> this yet.
>>>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC#Joining_a_domain_as_a_RODC_.28Status_for_a_work_in_progress.29 
>>>>> Maybe there's some other way, but I wouldn't know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> mots
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 21.10.2014 um 08:43 schrieb Le Duf' aKa DemY:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we are trying to use samba 3.6 over a big network with multiple xdsl
>>>>>> link (512Kbit to 10 Mbits not symetric).
>>>>>> We have a main site with two domain controlers (Windows 2k8 R2) and
>>>>>> about one hundred middle sites with samba member servers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have a big issue with Active Directory (AD) ACL which disapear 
>>>>>> when
>>>>>> member server  (powered by samba and winbind)
>>>>>> can't discuss (for network resaon : i.e. link is down for 10 mn) 
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> ADC (Domain controler) which is located on main site.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a known issue of samba/winbind ?
>>>>>> How can we fix this issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for your support.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> Are you sure that this is not a problem with the NAS ? have you tried
>> asking on the synology forum ? does the NAS have a fixed ip ?
>>
>> Rowland
> Yes it's a fixed IP(a server ... so).
> Synology ? they dig but found nothing.
> This issue is on their support web site but no answer ...
>
> it' why i want to know if the samba team (ou someone else) have tested 
> samba 3.6 as member server when the wan link is up and 1 or 3 hours 
> later up again !



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