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shelbydz

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Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 58

automatically reconnecting to active dircetory domain

i went through the active directory integration instructions on the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … ntegration to get my work laptop onto our windows domain. It works. But when i reboot, the laptop doesn't automatically reconnect to the domain. It hangs until i drop to a terminal, log in as a local user and manually reset a bunch of stuff. I have to

* ask for a new kerbose ticket
* restart nmbd, samba and winbindd

Once, i've done that, the rest of the service seem to un-hang and keep moving, getting me to the ui.

Question is, how do I automatically renew the kerbose tickets on boot. I think if i did this ahead of systemctl trying to start the other services, everything else would probably go smooth.

thx

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: automatically reconnecting to active dircetory domain

May be if you use a script to do the job?
Something like

#!/bin/bash

#------------------------------------------#
#  Start nmbd, samba and winbindd             |
#------------------------------------------#

NMBD=path/to/nmbd;
SAMBA=path/to/sanba;
WINBINDD=path/to/winbindd;

# Find if services are running

NMBD_RUNNING=`pgrep -c nmbd`;
SMBRUNNING=`pgrep -c samba`;
WINBRUNNING=`pgrep -c winbindd`;

function run_nmbd(){
   if [ $NMBD_RUNNING == 1 ]; then
        kdialog --title "NMBD is running" --passivepopup "Firefox is running ..." 5
   else
       $NMBD
   fi
}

function run_samba(){
   if [ $SBMRUNNING == 1 ]; then
        kdialog --title "Samba is running" --passivepopup "Thunderbird is running ..." 5
   else
       $SAMBA
   fi
}

So the idea here would be that you test to see if the app is running. If it it not start it else just ignore or notify you with a pop-up that is running.

Hope this helps.

R.

shelbydz

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Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 58

Re: automatically reconnecting to active dircetory domain

cool. thats a great idea. i can pretty easily add a check for the kerbose ticket too. Then i just add this as a systemctl service and run at boot time?

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: automatically reconnecting to active dircetory domain

I suppose you can use it in different ways.
For instance, I use that technique in a headless server to connect external HDDs (the backup drives) via @reboot with cron.
I also use that in my home machine to start FF and Thunderbird via ~/.kde4/Autostart ( I use KDE ).

So you can apply your ideas to it and go with it.

Good luck!! 

R.