Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 166099
pam_smb fails to try backup server
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I have two servers configured in my pam_smb.conf, PRIMARY and SECONDARY. If PRIMARY and SECONDARY are both on the local subnet, either one can go down, and everything is fine, pam_smb appears to try one, then the other, and we're okay. However, if the PRIMARY is on a different subnet, pam_smb hangs for a couple of MINUTES trying to access it, then times out and fails completely instead of attempting SECONDARY. This is completely repeatable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam_smb-1.1.7-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. secondary server on different subnet 2. fail primary server 3. try to login Actual Results: logins are impossible Expected Results: A faster timeout followed by failover to the backup server. Additional info:
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