Am 2018-07-18 um 10:45 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:> Have you ever heard of laptops ? you know those things that wander away > from the domain ;-)laptops? hm I'm gonna look that up on altavista asap.>> I understand that logins might fail, sure, but maybe the >> authenticated connections to the DM could be maintained by the DM >> itself for a short period of time? > > No, Windows clients should be okay, provided they have logged in at > least once recently, Unix domain members will require 'winbind offline > logon = yes' in smb.confSo I should/could add that setting on the file server before doing anything ... right now it is set to "no".>> Sorry if I ask obvious things here or show my misunderstanding ... >> but I never tried that and wonder what happens. >> >> Sure, a 2nd DC would be much better, I know. > > Oh definitely, but you can only work with the resources you have and > before anybody mentions VM's, these are only any good if they are on > different machines. If they are on the same machine and the machine > falls over, then you lose both of them.I know, yes, definitely.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:56:22 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> Am 2018-07-18 um 10:45 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba: > > > Have you ever heard of laptops ? you know those things that wander > > away from the domain ;-) > > laptops? hm > I'm gonna look that up on altavista asap. > > >> I understand that logins might fail, sure, but maybe the > >> authenticated connections to the DM could be maintained by the DM > >> itself for a short period of time? > > > > No, Windows clients should be okay, provided they have logged in at > > least once recently, Unix domain members will require 'winbind > > offline logon = yes' in smb.conf > > So I should/could add that setting on the file server before doing > anything ... right now it is set to "no".It needs to be on any Unix domain members, these could be fileservers, printservers or clients. Rowland
Am 2018-07-18 um 11:39 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:>>> No, Windows clients should be okay, provided they have logged in at >>> least once recently, Unix domain members will require 'winbind >>> offline logon = yes' in smb.conf >> >> So I should/could add that setting on the file server before doing >> anything ... right now it is set to "no". > > It needs to be on any Unix domain members, these could be fileservers, > printservers or clients.Understood. In this case I only have one samba fileserver as unix domain member (afaik).