[Samba] occassionally : no domain controller available

[pilsl at goldfisch.at]

hmmm ...  the problem occures with almost all clients and the machines
are running 24/7 ...  but thnx for your reply. I'll put in my mind and
hopefully all puzzles together will soon lead me to a solution ...

peter



On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:29:53AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
> I had some really weird problems just like this for a while, and finally figured out by accident (our acocuntant was late coming in) that everything worked fine until a few seconds after she turned her computer on.  It was apparently a bad NIC, although it worked fine with a Win2K server - go figure...
> 
> Don't know if this is your problem, but...
> 
> Charles
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org 
> > [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of pilsl at goldfisch.at
> > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:03 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] occassionally : no domain controller available
> > 
> > 
> > I'm using samba 2.2.3a as fileserver and domaincontroller for 12
> > NT4-clients (sp6a) and occassionally - when a user tries to logon -
> > there comes the following messages on the nt-client:
> > -
> > No Windows NT Domain Controller is available for domain XXXX. 
> > There are
> > currently no logonservers available to service the logonrequest.
> > -
> > and
> > -
> > server-side profile not available. The OS tries to log you on with
> > your local profile.
> > -
> > 
> > There is no visible pattern when this error occures. Sometime no
> > machine has this error at all in the morning, sometimes 3 or 4 and
> > sometimes only 1 machine. The error is also not related to the
> > peaktime in the morning.
> > 
> > I run several very similar samba-installations and I never ran into
> > such a problem. After the user is logged on (with its local profile)
> > he can access the server as fileserver without any problems.
> > 
> > I currently work with debug-level 3 and cant find the problem. (There
> > are some errors in the log of course, but the very same errors occures
> > on different machines with no such problems this day).  The client
> > just seems not to access the roaming profile. There is no access to
> > NTUSER.DAT for example, so the problem seems to happen before.  I
> > compared logfiles which a successful logon and a "failed" logon and
> > just cant figure out the problem ..
> > 
> > there are almost certainly no networktroubles and I reapplied sp6a to
> > all clients and I also removed and readded affected clients from and
> > to the domain again without any help ...
> > 
> > I put the logfiles of one client where this problems happend today at
> > 9:30 together with the serverlog and my smb.conf in a tgz-file at
> > http://www.goldfisch.at/temp/smb.tgz
> > 
> > The problem happened at 9:30 when user "elisabeth" tried to logon and
> > client and server are in sync for their systemtime.
> > 
> > maybe anyone can help me here. feel kinda doomed ...
> > 
> > thnx,
> > peter
> > 
> > 
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