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  1. Bug #84899
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 84899

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William F Pearson (wfpearson) wrote :

I also had to edit nsswitch.conf
This fix worked for me, i am now able to connect and the connection is much faster.

In /etc/nsswitch.conf, I replaced :

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

with

hosts: files dns

Note both the client and server are Ubuntu boxes connecting to an Active Directory server via Samba winbind Kerberos 5 authentication. I believe this has something to do with the problem.