Password changing...

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 13:11 +0200, Peter Stamfest wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [Appologies if this should be targeted to the plain samba list, but I get 
> too many e-mails already to try yet another list-subscription.]
> 
> I am experiencing a strange problem: In a two-location, two-samba-server 
> setup, users cannot change their passwords because the "domain is 
> unavailable". Everything else works as expected.
> 
> The setup consists of two samba-servers with an LDAP backend. LDAP is 
> taking care of replication. All of this seems to work. The master samba 
> server acts as a central WINS server for all clients and the second 
> server.
> 
> When I finally added the second server at the second location, I found out 
> that password changing at that location does not work (at the first 
> location it does). I sniffed the network traffic and found out that the PC 
> trying to change the password at the second location is looking for the 
> name DOMAIN<20>, which is not there. After this, it complains about the 
> domain not being there.

> Anybody knows anything about this? I deliberatly leave out the 
> configuration at this stage to not bloat this e-mail any further.

It is a valid configuration in Samba 3.0 to have multiple 'PDC' servers,
one per netbios scope.  If you are willing to separate your netbios
scopes into each location, eg with a WINS server per location (and use
the DNS fallback in windows or your WINS sever for inter-site names)
then this is a good option.  Otherwise, the PDC must be accessible from
each location.

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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