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

[Ole Traupe]

Am 17.12.2015 um 17:08 schrieb 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.

Hm, strange that it initially was no problem.


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> 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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You mean your users don't use domain accounts when they log on to member 
servers, but they use local linux users?