winbind and networkmanager

zebbedi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 123

I have a new laptop at work, which i've configured to logon to the windows domain using samba / winbind. I'm using a wireless connection on it so set it up using networkmanager.

If i login using a local account, which starts the wireless then the Active Directory authentication works perfectly in another terminal. However as soon as i log out of that account it no longer works (presumably because the wireless connection is dropped). I've configured samba and pam_winbind to use cached logins, which doesn't seem to work when the connection is dropped.

How can I work round this? It seems like i need the connection to authenticate, but I can't start the connection until I've authenticated.

PeGa! · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:17 am Post subject:

It happened to me some time ago but after a partition failure I reinstalled and now it is working. I'm not saying this is a solution, but I cannot say exactly what happened in the middle.

Some ideas:

- network manager service installed and running in default runlevel (that is, rc-update add NetworkManager default)
- I don't have networkmanager-qt, nor kde-misc/networkmanagement (I had networkmanagement before)
- I have plasma-nm
- Maybe install some cli client for NetworkManager?
- swtich to wicd? (terrible, but it could work)

Hope that helps,

Cheers!
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zebbedi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 123

I've set the connection to be a 'sytem' connection which i think has resolved it. But i've also now got a docking station with a wired connection so haven't tested it 100%. I need to check it with no network connection to make sure i can still log in at all.

PeGa! · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:54 pm Post subject:

You can set an anacron script (or a custom initscript with a big sleep inside) to write a file if it can ping or connect to an external server.

The initscript way: