Win98 goes to sleep on Samba

[Nate Keegan]

I have been running RedHat 5.2 and Samba 2.0.3 for the past week or so. My 
network is made up of NT servers and 95/98 clients. So far Samba has been 
running beautifully - I can use my Samba shares just like they are NT shares. 
My only problem is from time to time my Win98 machine "goes to sleep" and 
asks me for either a password or an IPC$ password. Generally this happens 
after a period of inactivity such as overnight. In addition my NT domain 
account gets locked out when this happens. Other users can still connect to 
the Samba server but I cannot until I reactivate my NT account and remove my 
Linux box from the domain and add it back in. This has happened three times 
in the last week, not a really big deal, but very strange...can anyone clue 
me in to how I can resolve this issue. I've included portions of my smb.conf 
file and the log file for my machine (cop219) for reference...the log file is 
more interesting - I imagine this is largely an NT issue.

As always thank you in advance


running WINS on NT network....NT is PDC
#======================= Global Settings 
=====================================

# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
   workgroup = COP

snip......

# Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See
# security_level.txt for details.
   security = server
# Use password server option only with security = server
   password server = BACKUP1

snip.......

 encrypt passwords = yes
  smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd

snip.....

  unix password sync = Yes
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n 
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*

snip.......

# Use only if you have an NT server on your network that has been
# configured at install time to be a primary domain controller.
   domain controller = BACKUP1

# Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for
# Windows95 workstations.
;   domain logons = yes

snip....

[IPC$]
public = yes

>From the log file for my machine - I am COP219
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[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50)
  startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd
[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147)
  unable to open smb password database.
[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file.
[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127)
  password server BACKUP1 rejected the password
[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50)
  startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd
[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147)
  unable to open smb password database.
[1999/03/25 19:57:07, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file.
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127)
  password server BACKUP1 rejected the password
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50)
  startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147)
  unable to open smb password database.
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file.
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127)
  password server BACKUP1 rejected the password
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50)
  startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147)
  unable to open smb password database.
[1999/03/25 19:57:28, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'nkeegan' in smb_passwd file.
[1999/03/25 20:00:35, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488)
  cop219 (195.XX.XX.XXX) connect to service SAMBA as user nkeegan (uid=500, 
gid=500) (pid 421)