[ubuntu-uk] Falling off Active directory

[Toby Satchell]

Hi,

The server all sync to an NTP time server which syncs the DCs as well.

The problem was the restarting winbindd doesn't actually work in fixing the
issue.

Thanks,

Toby.


On 23 May 2011 10:06, Bob Clough <parag0n at ivixor.net> wrote:

> As a quick hack, you could make a cronjob check wbinfo, if you get a
> message that it has fallen off the domain, kill and restart winbindd.
>
>
> On 20 May 2011 10:14, Toby Satchell <tsatchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Grant,
>>
>> I can't see anything logs which would relate to the issue.
>>
>> You can test using wbinfo -u or wbinfo -g to show the users or groups,
>> which means it is all working fine however that just returns "Error looking
>> up domain users/groups"
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Toby.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20 May 2011 10:01, Grant Sewell <dcglug at thymox.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:56:36 +0100
>>> Toby Satchell wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > We have a number of Ubuntu servers 10.04.
>>> >
>>> > They join to active directory run by Windows Server 2008 R2 very well.
>>> >
>>> > However it seems they appear to fall off or loose a connection with
>>> > the AD servers. It took 9 days last time.
>>> >
>>> > There isn't anything useful in the logs to explain why.
>>> >
>>> > The only way previously was to reboot the machine, which is not
>>> > really an option at times.
>>> >
>>> > We have just found that killing winbind and starting it again fixes
>>> > the issue without have to reboot the server.
>>> > Restarting winbind does not fix it it doesn't even appear to restart
>>> > in the process list, seems more like a reload.
>>> >
>>> > We have tried many other solutions and none have they worked.
>>> > Aside from making a really dodgy cron script to kill and start
>>> > winbind every 7/8 days does anybody know of a fix/solution?
>>> >
>>> > Has anybody else had this problem?
>>> >
>>> > Kind regards,
>>> >
>>> > Toby.
>>>
>>> All joking apart, have you tried looking at the Windows Server 2008 R2
>>> event logs to see if that end gives you any hints?
>>>
>>> Grant.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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