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 <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toby Satchell BSc (hons)
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