CIFS: Failing over to a BDC in ADS mode

[Mike Hepple]

Hi,

I have a problem with a CIFS server (in an MC/ServiceGuard environment) and using BDCs. It is currently setup, in smb.conf, like following:

password server = domainpdc domainbdc1 domainbdc2

Everything works fine as long as domainpdc is up, however if we shutdown the pdc, then the CIFS servers do not failover to the BDC, and stop serving the clients. Rejoining the server to the domain (with 'net ads join') completed successfully, but still did not work properly with the clients.

Apologies if this is lacking technical depth, I am unable to go on the internet at work - so this is all from memory. Anything that anyone can suggest will be greatly appreciated.

Mike Hepple

[Mike Hepple]

Moving to the General section