After reading the documentation and watching the traffic
on my new Samba server, I believe that in order for winbind to work
correctly, it needs to be constantly able to connect to the main W2K
server to retrieve password and username information.
My question is:
If I cannot assure this constant connection
between the servers, is winbind my best solution for maintaining password
and user synchronization?
My situation:
I have two offices connected via a VPN which
allows all traffic to flow between the two offices. My main office
has a W2K server and I have set up my remote office with
Samba/Winbind. The Internet connection is not extremely stable
between the offices. Everytime the connection goes down, even
briefly, users at the remote office lose their connections to the server
and are not able to re-connect without rebooting their PCs.
The ideal solution:
I would like to be able to set up winbind (or
another program) to check with the W2K server periodically for updates
only (maybe every day), otherwise I would like it to maintain the
usernames and passwords entirely on the Samba server and not require a
connection to the W2K server.
Relevant smb.conf info:
# Global
parameters [global]
workgroup = SCHEMMER netbios
name = FS1_CB security =
DOMAIN encrypt passwords =
Yes password server
= *
winbind uid =
10000-20000 winbind gid =
10000-20000 winbind
separator = + winbind cache
time = 86400
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance!
Jeremy Lahners
Assistant Manager, I.T.
The Schemmer Associates Inc.
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