[Samba] Authentication to Secondary Domain Controller initially fails when PDC is offline

[James]

On 12/17/2015 10:40 AM, Ole Traupe wrote:
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>> I just disabled my DC that is listed as SOA in a production 
>> environment.  I'm using the internal DNS. I have 6 DC's in total 
>> across 3 sites. Around 200+ users and 140+ workstations. Everything 
>> appears to be working as normal aside from my monitoring tools going 
>> crazy. No issues so far. I am not authenticating local users to my 
>> member server however.
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> What exactly do you mean by that last sentence?
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>> I will monitor for a awhile and see if anything creeps up or I start 
>> to get phone calls..
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> Thanks for the feedback!
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Took about an an hour but issues starting happening. Windows 
workstations would spin on the welcome screen and not log in. Shares on 
a member server were inaccessible to users. Started the DC and 
everything came back up.

Sorry for my last sentence.  I am not authenticating users who log in 
locally against AD for my domain member server.

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-James