[Samba] RE: ClearCase and Samba

[bsemmes at CS.Trinity.Edu]

> In August we started having windows domain controller issues.  Could it be 
> the number of users that are running ClearCase at a given point in time? 
> We have between 40 - 70 users accessing the VOBs at any given time.  The 
> samba config file is setup not run  security = SERVER. 
> 
> The error logs:
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 2] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:(170)
>   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file 
> /usr/local/samba/private/smbpa
> sswd. Error was No such file or directory
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:(1367)
>   unable to open passdb database.
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 1] smbd/password.c:(555)
>   Couldn't find user 'rm38144' in passdb.
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 2] smbd/reply.c:(962)
>   NT Password did not match for user 'rm38144'!
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 1] smbd/reply.c:(998)
>   Rejecting user 'rm38144': bad password
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 3] smbd/error.c:(91)
>   error string = No such file or directory
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 3] smbd/error.c:(103)
>   error packet at smbd/reply.c(1000) cmd=115 (SMBsesssetupX) 
> NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAI
> LURE
> [2002/10/02 10:38:15, 3] smbd/process.c:(860)
>   Transaction 397 of length 74

Our group observed the same sequence of errors.  We are not running 
clearcase, but we are using security = SERVER.  The problem was stale smbd 
processes for connections that were no longer active.  We used the 
"deadtime" parameter in the smb.conf file and things appear to be working 
better.

Brian