[Samba] Corrupted userid in mail folders - Crisis
Christoph Scheeder
christoph.scheeder at scheeder.de
Wed Sep 22 07:40:22 GMT 2004
Hi again,
Roland Giesler schrieb:
>>Hi,
>>another thing popes to my mind,
>>check if a nscd process is running on your box.
>>if yes stop it and remove it from the startup-scripts.
>>It is not compatible with with samba and windbindd and
>>may create strange effects.
>>Christoph
>
>
> Yes, nscd was running, but I have stopped it now. What is nscd?
>
> Also, further to our discussion before, the userid actually get's changed
> Look at this:
you didn't check what i wanted you to check... ;-)
> [root at inet root]# ls -l /home/RHENGHS/canhal
> total 12
> drwx------ 7 monsla Domain Users 4096 Aug 17 13:48 Maildir/
> drwx------ 2 monsla Domain Users 4096 Feb 23 2002 tmp/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 monsla Domain Users 4096 Jun 20 2002 webpage/
> [root at inet root]# ls -ln /home/RHENGHS/canhal
> total 12
> drwx------ 7 10585 10000 4096 Aug 17 13:48 Maildir/
> drwx------ 2 10585 10000 4096 Feb 23 2002 tmp/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 10585 10000 4096 Jun 20 2002 webpage/
^^^^^^^^^^^
what i want you to verify is if these numbers are changing.
i bet they are constant and the only changing numbers are the
numbers reported from getent.
> [root at inet root]# getent passwd canhal
> canhal:x:10167:10000::/home/RHENGHS/canhal:/bin/bash
>
> So you can see that the correct user should be 10167, not 10585
No, i bet the number reported from getent is changing.
> Also SMB hangs after a few hours. When I left last night, everything had
> been running fine for about 2 hours. When I got to work this morning,
> no-one was authenticated. When I tried to ls a user dir, I got not
> response. On issuing the reboot command I saw on the console that there was
> no process SMB. Here are the SMB messages in syslog.
>
How was your samba installed? Was it compiled from source or are the
package(s) from your distribution installed?
Christoph
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