Winbind loses connection to Microsoft Active Directory randomly

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Winbind is losing connection to Microsoft Active Directory: it stops translating group info and can see only gid number from range of "idmap gid = 16777216-93554431" which is set in smb.conf

    "[2010/08/13 10:40:29,  0] lib/smbldap_util.c:smbldap_search_domain_info(310)
  smbldap_search_domain_info: Adding domain info for AB200-304 failed with NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL"

  • Problem keeping RHEL5 system Joined to Microsoft Active Directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 6
  • samba3x-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64
  • samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64
  • samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64
  • Microsoft Active Directory 2008
  • Microsoft Active Directory 2003

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