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

[Rowland penny]

On 18/12/15 12:07, Ole Traupe wrote:
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> Am 18.12.2015 um 12:30 schrieb Rowland penny:
>> On 18/12/15 11:19, Ole Traupe wrote:
>>> Hi Rowland,
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>>> I am very thankful, that you take the time and test all this!
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>> No problem.
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>>> Before I go and check if this is the same with my setup and possibly 
>>> the problem, could you perhaps try a logon to a member server, while 
>>> the 1st DC is unavailable?
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>> Ah, slight problem there, as I said, this is just a couple of test 
>> DCs and there are no test domain members, you will have to bear with 
>> me whilst I create one.
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> I would be very greatful, and I guess many others too.
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> I heard from many sides that you should really only use bind9 in case 
> you plan a more complicated setup. Until now I thought that having 2 
> DCs wasn't considered as such.
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Hi Ole, Would you like to know how to set up bind9 ? or to put it 
another way, you cannot login via ssh to a domain member if the the 
first DC goes down when you are using the internal dns server. If you 
use bind9, you can login, although there is a bit of a lag.

Rowland