[Samba] Working through the PAM Offline Authentication Wiki page, but...

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Nov 25 16:26:07 UTC 2024


On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:09:38 -0500
"John R. Graham via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 11/25/24 10:56, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On a DC it doesn't, you cannot take winbind offline on a DC. When it
> > comes to a DC 'smbcontrol' does nothing, you can only stop the
> > 'samba' deamon (which turns off smbd & winbindd), start it (which
> > starts smbd & winbindd) or restart it (which stops, then starts
> > smbd & winbindd).
> >
> > If you stop and think about it, I feel it will come to you why you
> > cannot take a major part of a DC offline ;-)
> >
> > This, along with numerous other reasons, is why it is not
> > recommended to use a Samba AD DC as a fileserver.
> >
> > Rowland
> 
> This isn't on a DC. This is on a Linux machine I have joined to the
> domain.
> 

D, I must go to specsavers, I appear to be going blind ;-)

you wrote 'smbcontrol winbind offline' and I missed it, the extra 'd'
that is, it should have been:

smbcontrol winbindd offline

Rowland



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