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

[James]

On 12/17/2015 11:44 AM, Ole Traupe wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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Correct on my member server.

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-James