On the domain controller side we got a lot of updates recently: - Updated Heimdal - Working with the latest MIT Kerberos On the member server side we fixed some critical bugs and have plans for future improvements how a file server can avoid as much domain controller interaction as possible.

DCE/RPC is a popular library for sending RPC calls to Active Directory from Linux/Unix systems. So far, DCE/RPC calls to Active Directory are synchronous and they actually wait for the response from Active Directory. Till that time, a thread inside DCE/RPC keeps on waiting until the response is received. This mechanism for send/receive fails and causes stuck calls in case of network disruptions, slow network, or rather flaky connections. It is required to have a solution that obviates such unnecessary hangs and handles connection issues more gracefully.