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. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
