Hi, the problem you're describing is common to such setups. IMHO the following will help you in your setup:
1. raise the VPN timeouts This should prevent your VPN to go offline. 2. install a PDC/ BDC in each location Distribute distribute domain specific information to all locations, so you don't rely so heavily on your VPN. The samba-howto gives you information about the setup (Chapter 5. Backup Domain Control -> LDAP Configuration Notes). For this setup you need a Linux-box in each location. Depending on the needed performance/ size of your locations/ ... , it can range from something like a "Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH with OpenWRT" up to a small server. Cheers, Christian =========================================================== Dipl.-Ing. Christian Rost roCon - Informationstechnologie Ulmenstraße 45 44534 Lünen fon: +49 (0) 2306 910 658 fax: +49 (0) 2306 910 664 url: http://www.rocon-it.de --------ray klassen <julius_ahenobar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote-------- Subject: [Samba] VPN/WAN Domain members Date: 24.11.2010 18:15 >I have about 60 PC's running windows XP behind vpn routers in different >locations. I find that they lose connection or sync (or whatever the right >word >is) to the domain periodically, probably when the vpn shuts down due to >low >demand. The result is that any domain user not already in the local >password >hash cache cannot log in and any local share with domain permissions on it >will >not allow the a domain account access if the pc is not rebooted. Is there >any >way to force windows to resync without a reboot or to make XP more fault >tolerant to slower connections to the samba domain? > >Thanks in advance. etc... > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba