samba - Sep 2010 - smbclient -L succeeded even network is down

Hello list,

Accidentally I found that when network is down "smbclient -L localhost
-U%"
became slow however it still succeeded after like half a minute.

This is weird because my Samba server is running inside AD,

Q1. How can smbclient authenticate without talking to AD controller? I think
in this case smbclient at least tried to (reach AD controller),  otherwise
shouldn't take it so long.
Q2. Is there anyway I can suppress the authentication against AD controller
if I'm root?

Might be trivial questions, could anyone help?

Bests
-David

Hello, no one dealt with this before? Short question, can I get "smbclient
-L //localhost -U%" without authenticate against AD controller (when
network
down), if I'm local samba server root user.

2010/9/7 David Roid <dataroid at gmail.com>
> Hello list,
>
> Accidentally I found that when network is down "smbclient -L localhost
-U%"
> became slow however it still succeeded after like half a minute.
>
> This is weird because my Samba server is running inside AD,
>
> Q1. How can smbclient authenticate without talking to AD controller? I
> think in this case smbclient at least tried to (reach AD controller),
> otherwise shouldn't take it so long.
> Q2. Is there anyway I can suppress the authentication against AD controller
> if I'm root?
>
> Might be trivial questions, could anyone help?
>
> Bests
> -David
>