[ubuntu-uk] Falling off Active directory

[Bob Clough]

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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