samba - Jun 2012 - dc locator/site awareness, and samba-winbind-krb5-locator

Hi all

A couple of questions for you on domain integration:

Firstly, can someone please explain to me where/how a samba device's site
info is cached? I see from a trace that when winbind starts it goes through the
usual process that a windows device does (DNS query for non site-specific SRV,
LDAP query/response with site name, DNS query for site-specific SRV).


-        How is the site info cached?

-        How can the cache be refreshed?

-        Is it possible to manually set a site (like configuring the SiteName
registry entry on a windows box)

Secondly, I installed the samba-winbind-krb5-locator plugin (on Fedora), how can
I tell this is actually working? It no longer queries DNS for the _kerberos or
_kpasswd SRV records (cf windows client) so I am assuming it is working ok.
However before I did the domain join, it was still doing default Kerberos
behaviour (i.e. looking for _kerberos and_kerberos-master, with no site info
requested).

I couldn't see anything in the man pages for winbind. I am an AD person not
a UNIX person so thanks in advance for any insights/top tips from samba gurus :)

Dan Johnson

Apologies, have I put this in the wrong place? Is this perhaps something I need
to ask the technical list?

Dan Johnson
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Sent: 21 June 2012 12:42
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Subject: [Samba] dc locator/site awareness, and samba-winbind-krb5-locator

Hi all

A couple of questions for you on domain integration:

Firstly, can someone please explain to me where/how a samba device's site
info is cached? I see from a trace that when winbind starts it goes through the
usual process that a windows device does (DNS query for non site-specific SRV,
LDAP query/response with site name, DNS query for site-specific SRV).


-        How is the site info cached?

-        How can the cache be refreshed?

-        Is it possible to manually set a site (like configuring the SiteName
registry entry on a windows box)

Secondly, I installed the samba-winbind-krb5-locator plugin (on Fedora), how can
I tell this is actually working? It no longer queries DNS for the _kerberos or
_kpasswd SRV records (cf windows client) so I am assuming it is working ok.
However before I did the domain join, it was still doing default Kerberos
behaviour (i.e. looking for _kerberos and_kerberos-master, with no site info
requested).

I couldn't see anything in the man pages for winbind. I am an AD person not
a UNIX person so thanks in advance for any insights/top tips from samba gurus :)

Dan Johnson