Novell IntraNetware Client & PDC crashes
Jean-Francois Micouleau
Jean-Francois.Micouleau at utc.fr
Thu Aug 6 17:29:07 GMT 1998
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Dana Canfield wrote:
> I can't offer any help, but I can confirm that we have the same problem.
> It is important to note that the Intranetware client *did* work back in the
> May-ish CVS's, so something has changed in Samba. Jeremy has asked me for
> a packet trace, but I don't have the right tools to do this from a thrid
> machine, and I can't figure out how to do a packet trace from the client
> machine, since it is the one that will crash. Maybe if you have a way of
> doing this, you could send a trace to jeremy and they can fix it?
I suppose you're talking about Network Monitor SMS/BackOffice version ?
You can also try to run tcpdump to do the capture and after convert it to
netmon format with capconvert. Capconvert is available by ftp on
samba.anu.edu.au.
J.F.
>
> Dana
>
> louis.botha at cs.up.ac.za wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We are in the unfortunate position that we are forced to use the
> > IntraNetware client from Novell. Don't ask why - it's a long story :)
> >
> > The client behaves rather strangely. From the samba logs it seems that
> > when a user logs into the domain, the authentication works, the user
> > registry is read and the files in the profile directories are read.
> > The client then tries to execute an illegal instruction and the entire
> > NT box crashes. Oh joy.
> >
> > The client does not crash when I connect to a real NT PDC. If I
> > uninstall the Intranetware client, I can log in successfully using a
> > Samba PDC.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why this might happen when I switch to a
> > Samba PDC?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Louis
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Louis Botha Computer Science Department
> > louis.botha at cs.up.ac.za University of Pretoria
> > Tel: +27-12-420-3617 Pretoria
> > Cell: +27-82-924-4616 South Africa
> > http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~lbotha
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
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