About a month ago, I setup a Windows 2000 native-mode domain, and had a couple of Linux machines join the active directory. I followed the steps outlined in the Samba 3.0 docs regarding winbind/PAM/NSS. The machines joined the domain fine, and 'wbinfo -t', as well as 'wbinfo -u/-g' and 'getent passwd/group' return expected results. Connecting from other Windows clients in the domain with NetBIOS off works as expected. The problem I have is every day or so, all of a sudden, winbind/PAM just stops authenticating users. At this point in time, 'wbinfo -u' still succeeds but both 'wbinfo -u/-g' and 'getent passwd/group' return absolutely no results. Once I restart winbindd, everything works fine again. This has been happening for about a month, almost every day, starting with Samba 3.0.0beta1, and now still with 3.0.0beta3. I've got (among other settings): security = ads realm = GENOSHA.ENFUSION-GROUP.COM password server = beast.genosha.enfusion-group.com obey pam restrictions = yes idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 winbind separator = + domain master = no local master = no My setup is as follows: 2 Windows 2000 DCs, and two Linux servers, one running RH 8.0 with kernel 2.4.20 and Samba 3.0.0beta3, the other running Debian Sid, with kernel 2.6.0-test1 (has been running 2.4.18) and Samba 3.0.0beta2. Both Linux boxes exhibit the exact same symptoms and failures. After the latest failure tonight, I ran 'wbinfo --sequence' after which point I was again able to query domain users and groups without having to do a full restart of winbindd. Can anyone offer any advice as to what would be useful in troubleshooting this problem? I've turned the debug level up on winbind, and have some logs from a failure with the debug level up, but they're quite long. If they'd be helpful, I can post a URL. Thanks! -- Adrian Chung (adrian at enfusion-group dot com) http://www.enfusion-group.com/~adrian/ GPG Fingerprint: C620 C8EA 86BA 79CC 384C E7BE A10C 353B 919D 1A17 [gambit.enfusion-group.com] 8:38pm up 57 days, 22:15, 10 users