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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 poin...

...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 poin...