Delay start of AD Bind, or re-run AD bind from task

[Eds89]

Hi,

I have a FreeNAS/ESXi AIO, and only a single Active Directory domain controller.
This DC is virtualised, and stored on the FreeNAS VMs passed through storage.

As I used AD auth for my SMB shares, because the DC isn't available until FreeNAS is booted, when FreeNAS tries to bind to AD during startup, it fails.
I am hoping their is either a way to delay the initial bind attempt by a couple of minutes, or there is some way to re-bind via an SSH command that I can add to a startup script.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Eds

 

[dlavigne]

Check the Enable Monitoring box in Directory Services -> Active Directory to tell FreeNAS to rebind when it's not connected.

 

[Eds89]

Don't know how I missed that!

Thanks, will see how that goes!

 

[dlavigne]

It's fairly new, but was added for exactly the scenario you're experiencing