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.
Relevent 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.
http://www.schemmer.com
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