On May 1, 2015, at 17:16 , Upchurch, Bart S. 
<bart.upchu...@texarkanacollege.edu> wrote:

> Page 32 In Admin Guide shows the example
>  
> password server = 192.168.1.1
>  
> Would it be better to show?
>  
> password server = 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, *
> or
> password server = 192.168.1.1, *
>  
> I know this was my fault, but I only placed one of our Domain Controller’s IP 
> in the smb.conf. When the Domain controller rebooted, I started getting the 
> below error message.
>  
> Fri May  1 08:22:17 2015 : Info: Child PID 22881 (/usr/bin/ntlm_auth) is 
> taking too much time: forcing failure and killing child.
>  
> I had to restart samba to fix it. By specifying an * it will use the IPs 
> listed as preferred then will use others if the preferred are not available.
>  
> Reference link:
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#PASSWORDSERVER
>  


I don’t think this work the way you believe.

password server is only used for ldap authentication and not for ntlm_auth.
Windbind use DNS to find the DC to query.

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