Diego Rivera wrote:>
> Hi all!
>
> A while ago I caught a discussion re Samba and LDAP SAM backend, with
> OpenLDAP and nss_ldap.
>
> It seems that the reason the smbd process keeps crashing (and thus
> losing connections) has something to do with the fact that the LDAP
> standard allows connections to be unilaterally closed by the directory
> server, and this was causing Samba to crash.
>
> Again - this is my hazy recollection of the thread.
>
> I'm seeing this behavior in my setup (Samba LDAP-based PDC). Is my
> summary above (mostly) correct? Is there a fix for this? Is it included
> as part of 2.2.6 or is it a problem with OpenLDAP/nss_ldap?
>
> We plan to do a rather large Samba install soon, and I'd like to know
in
> advance if I'm going to have to handle the Samba PDC account storage
> differently.
nss_ldap >= 200 has the fix for this. Any earlier release may well
randomly crash smbd.
Andrew Bartlett
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