FW: Winbindd timeout on unreacheable domains
ww m-pubsyssamba
pubsyssamba at bbc.co.uk
Wed Feb 18 10:37:58 GMT 2004
Hi All,
would anyone like to acknoledge this as a problem or correct me if I'm mistaken, I didn't get a
responce from the samba mailing list. Seems to me to be an issue with implementing Samba+winbindd in a
distributed multi-domain windows environment,
thanks Andy.
Hi All,
I have a concern with the behaviour of winbindd on startup in a multi-domain environment, in my
case a 6 domain AD forest + trusts to 3 NT 4 domains. I've tested startup of winbindd in a 2 domain
development environment and found if a trusted domain is not contactable it takes five minutes to
timeout before winbindd becomes active (/tmp/.winbindd/pipe is created).
If I assume this will be the same behaviour for winbindd in our production environment then if our
domain were isolated from the rest of the trusted domains then winbindd would take 45 minutes (9x
5minutes) to become active if we needed to restart a server. Because our domain is on a physically
different and separately managed network from the others it is more than possible this type of situation
could occur. 45 minutes to startup is obviously unacceptable especially as I hope to deploy Samba 3.x on
one of our clusters. And to put this in comparison with a pure windows solution we would have no such
issues starting a DC or fileserver in a domain just because it couldn't see any or all trusted domains.
If I am incorrect please can you put me right on this, if I am correct is it possible that winbindd
can be modified to establish connection only with its local domain at startup and start serving data to
Samba from cached data for other domains?
thanks in advance, Andy Smith.
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