WG: WG: [Samba] Strange!!! Clients only log on to samba bdc

Ist there no one concerning this behaviour?
I did my setup following the man pages.
There must be a serious bug in samba 3.031.

Daniel

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Von: Daniel Müller [mailto:mueller@tropenklinik.de]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. September 2008 10:11
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Betreff: WG: WG: [Samba] Strange!!! Clients only log on to samba bdc

When I stop the BDC all clients log on to the PDC. And to my confusion
when I restarted the BDC today and made a testparm on both PDC and BDC
both showd role domain pdc --> Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC

Here my smb.confs:

PDC:
[global]
security=user
smb ports = 139
logon script = logon.bat
logon path = \\%L\%U\profile\%U
logon drive = S:
domain logons = Yes
os level = 254
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
wins server = 192.168.135.150 #this is a smbd4wins server
running on the same
machine
BDC:

[global]
security=user
smb ports = 139
logon script = logon.bat
logon path = \\%L\%U\profile\%U
logon drive = S:
domain logons = Yes
os level = 65
preferred master = Yes
domain master = No
wins server = 192.168.135.150


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Von: Michael Heydon [mailto:michaelh@jaswin.com.au]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. September 2008 09:46
An: mueller@tropenklinik.de
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Betreff: Re: WG: [Samba] Strange!!! Clients only log on to samba bdc

Daniel Müller wrote:
> Suddenly all clients log on to my BDC not longer to the PDC.
>
What happens if the BDC is unavailable (You could simulate this by
setting up iptables rules to drop all traffic from a given workstation)?

The way I understand it, workstations will use what ever DC is "closest"

to them. If the PDC is taking longer to respond or something then they
may consider the BDC to be the best choice.

*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh@jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh@jaswin.com.au>


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> Ist there no one concerning this behaviour?
> I did my setup following the man pages.
> There must be a serious bug in samba 3.031.

As I understand it, clients will prefer logging on to a BDC over a PDC,
and then use whichever responds quickest, so certainly all the clients
should not be logging in to one box or other - and probably least likely
to log on to the PDC of the two options.

I know that we see about a 60/40 split logins to BDC/PDC.

I don't think you should have domain master = yes set on the BDC.

Here's the settings from my BDC

[global]
netbios name = CORE02
server string = Longhill BDC (%v,%h)
workgroup = LONGHILL
interfaces = 10.108.1.8/255.255.255.0
name resolve order = host bcast wins
os level = 65
domain master = no
domain logons = yes
local master = no
preferred master = no
guest ok = yes
wins server = 10.108.1.32

Hope that helps

Alex
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