Sometimes after a reboot, I find that winbindd isn't running. I find this in the logs: [2010/08/25 16:18:50.710516, 0] lib/interface.c:519(load_interfaces) ERROR: Could not determine network interfaces, you must use a interfaces config line It looks like winbindd aborts after this... and then half a second later when the network does come up, authentication doesn't work. Winbindd should have opened a netlink socket to listen for notifications from the kernel about network configuration changes, and been patient. (The only interface it can use to talk to the corporate network is vpn0 anyway, which it tends to ignore for some reason.)
"Winbindd should have opened a netlink socket to listen for notifications from the kernel about network configuration changes, and been patient." This would make winbindd Linux-only. I know OpenSolaris is dying, but it's not dead yet... :-). I'm happy with feature specific code in winbindd, but it has to be #defined with an "#if defined(HAVE_NETLINK_SOCKET_INTERFACE)" etc. Jeremy.
We could use dbus properly #ifdef'ed, right? Isn't that a *bit* more generic? Volker
I'll settle for 'should have been more patient'. I don't really mind how it happens, as long as winbindd hasn't aborted by the time the network comes up. And ideally, if offline, winbindd would try to reconnect to the domain *immediately* when it gets notification that a new network device has come up.