[Samba] second dc not working properly

Jason Keltz jas at eecs.yorku.ca
Tue Dec 8 21:09:47 UTC 2020


I'm running Samba 4.11.16 on CentOS 7 and not having much luck with 
failover to a second domain controller.  I could *really* use some help.

I know my Samba config is fine.  I know that adding the second domain 
controler was fine.  Replication is working perfectly.  No errors.   If 
I stop the DC processes on either server, Windows clients appear to 
failover perfectly fine.

The problem seems to affect my Linux clients (CentOS 7) running winbind.

Let's say a CentOS 7 client X is connected to dc2, and I stop the DC 
processes on dc2....  The odd time, the client will connect to dc1 
almost right away, and everything just works the way it should always work.

However, most of the time, I stop the DC processes on dc2, the client 
will connect to dc1, I can even do a "wbinfo -u" or "wbinfo -g", but 
"whoami" reveals "user doesn't exist".  Somewhere between 20-50 minutes 
later, it just "magically" works.  The timing doesn't seem consistent.  
Even a reboot doesn't fix things when it's in this state.

I've tried to follow the Samba logs, but I really can't figure out 
what's up.  Andrew? Jeremy? Anyone?

I don't think this can be just my system.  I suspect there's a lot of 
users out there running multiple DCs with a similar setup to me, 
believing that it's all working, and maybe, because there hasn't been a 
failure, everything works great, but who knows what will happen when 
there's actually a failure.

Jason.




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