David - At least once a week on our 8,000-user systems, synchronization
breaks. Usually it is because the Passsync service on the AD server stops
running. Other times, Passync is running, but passwords do not sync.
Sometimes passwords sync only one way. Sometimes password sync works when we
change the user's password on the domain controller, but it does not work
when we change the user's password on the user's Windows XP computer.
Sometimes password sync breaks and other attributes continue to synchronize.
Often while this is going on, new accounts are not replicated from one system
to the other. An aggravating factor seems to be accounts that have
attributes allowed in Fedora Directory but not allowed in Active Directory,
such as duplicate names or user IDs.
The remedy for these problems seems to be to stop and restart Passsync and do
a full resync from the Fedora Directory Server console. Duplicate entries
must be changed so they are acceptable to AD, and a resync is necessary to
get them to replicate.
Thanks for the suggestion on creating the resync script. -G.
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From: David Boreham <david_list(a)boreham.org>
To: "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project."
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Sent: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:01:21 -0600
Subject: Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Scheduled Resync with Windows Sync?
Glenn wrote:
> It is difficult to know when a full resynchronization is necessary for a
> given Windows Sync agreement.
Why do you want to perform a full sync ? Typically that would only
be done if a) the servers had been out of contact for a long time or
b) when bringing up a new server or c) if the software is broken.
> I would like to be able to start a full resync
> from a cron script. Is this possible, or is there any other way to
schedule
> a full resync to run periodically without human intervention?
>
You can do this. The console initiates sync by writing to an LDAP
entry in the server's agreement tree. I'm not sure if this is
documented so you might need to snoop the traffic from a manual
operation and then write a script to generate the same result.
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