[Samba] wbinfo only lists one DC and idmap troubles
Andrea Venturoli
ml at netfence.it
Mon Jan 12 12:17:54 UTC 2026
On 1/12/26 12:41, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> I do not know where you found that, but all Samba AD DCs are
> authoritative for the AD dns domain and should be your first port of
> call, anything they do not know (outside the AD dns domain) should be
> forwarded to another dns server.
OK.
I'll look into this.
>> So, back to my first question, it's normal that "wbinfo --dc-info
>> local.xxxxxxx.it" only lists on DC. Right?
>
> That is correct and it may not always be the same DC.
OK. Fine.
> Doesn't matter, if your Samba client is told to use a DC and that DC is
> down,
Told by whom?
I expected at boot Winbind would look for the list of DCs, eventually
try to contact one and, if that fails, contact the other.
(Which, BTW, I think it did, because that's what was listed and I saw
traffic from the client to the working DC).
> I think you may be hitting this bug:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14597
Thanks.
At first sight, there's some slight differences ("getent group" worked
for me), but I'll look into this.
bye & Thanks
av.
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