samba - Feb 2006 - How to Make SMB server authenticate against multiple ADserver

This is from Using Samba...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch06_03.html


You can configure Samba to use a separate password server under
server-level security with the use of the password server global
configuration option, as follows:


[global]
	security = server
	password server = PHOENIX120 HYDRA134

Note that you can specify more than one machine as the target of the
password server ; Samba will move down the list of servers in the event
that its first choice is unreachable. The servers identified by the
password server option are given as NetBIOS names, not their DNS names
or equivalent IP addresses. Also, if any of the servers reject the given
password, the connection will automatically fail - Samba will not
attempt another server.


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+ronald.trimble=unisys.com@lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+ronald.trimble=unisys.com@lists.samba.org] On
Behalf Of Parker, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:35 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] How to Make SMB server authenticate against multiple
ADserver

I'm new to samba and I'm still trying to figure out the workings.  I
currently have a few servers setup to authenticate with AD (2003 domain)
with winbind.  Right now, I have a line in my smb.conf file that states
password server = alg-conyers-ad1.  I assume this tells it to
authenticate against this server only.  How do I make it choose a server
from DNS or at the least tell it to use other AD servers if this one is
offline?  My fear is that we'll rely on these servers more, AD1 will
fail, and then I'll have to scramble to point my smb servers to use
other AD servers.

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Michael

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