As a quick hack, you could make a cronjob check wbinfo, if you get a message that it has fallen off the domain, kill and restart winbindd.
On 20 May 2011 10:14, Toby Satchell <tsatch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Grant, > > I can't see anything logs which would relate to the issue. > > You can test using wbinfo -u or wbinfo -g to show the users or groups, > which means it is all working fine however that just returns "Error looking > up domain users/groups" > > Thanks, > > Toby. > > > > > On 20 May 2011 10:01, Grant Sewell <dcg...@thymox.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:56:36 +0100 >> Toby Satchell wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > We have a number of Ubuntu servers 10.04. >> > >> > They join to active directory run by Windows Server 2008 R2 very well. >> > >> > However it seems they appear to fall off or loose a connection with >> > the AD servers. It took 9 days last time. >> > >> > There isn't anything useful in the logs to explain why. >> > >> > The only way previously was to reboot the machine, which is not >> > really an option at times. >> > >> > We have just found that killing winbind and starting it again fixes >> > the issue without have to reboot the server. >> > Restarting winbind does not fix it it doesn't even appear to restart >> > in the process list, seems more like a reload. >> > >> > We have tried many other solutions and none have they worked. >> > Aside from making a really dodgy cron script to kill and start >> > winbind every 7/8 days does anybody know of a fix/solution? >> > >> > Has anybody else had this problem? >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > Toby. >> >> All joking apart, have you tried looking at the Windows Server 2008 R2 >> event logs to see if that end gives you any hints? >> >> Grant. >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Toby Satchell BSc (hons) > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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