The machines are SuSe, and to test I tried shutting down the network connection at the switch and connected via the console. Winbind was running during this test. I was unable to su - to a domain account, or run getent passwd username for a domain account. It just hung...
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:54 AM To: Taylor Lewick Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] Linux offline logon On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:37:08AM -0500, Taylor Lewick wrote: > So my question is, how can we set it up so that if winbind becomes > unavailable, or the domain controller is offline, someone can still > login to the machine using their domain account. You can't do this if winbindd is unavailable, as it's winbindd that caches the credentials that allow the offline login. > I did enable winbind offline logon = yes in smb.conf as well as > cached_login = yes in /etc/security/pam_winbind.conf and restarted samba > and winbind but that didn't seem to help. This should work (and does on Linux distros). Try looking at a SuSE configuration (as I *know* it works on that distro). Probably Guenther and Simo have also made this work on Red Hat too (but I haven't checked for a while). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
