Bad machine accounts

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:

> Well, this morning I did a cvs update and now the machine logs in okay --
> but something else broke, and since I now have a level 100 debug log I'll
> let y'all know anyway.  There are three issues currently unresolved, all
> of which should show up in this log:
> 
> 1.) the "detected a slow network connection" dialog on login, asking if
> the user wants to download the profile or use a local one:

this will happen when log levels are high.  will go away if you run at log
level 1.  don't worry about it.

 
> 2.) Can't connect to *any* shares on the PDC except those set guest only
> -- all others get invalid password errors.  Until today, it worked fine to
> connect to a share on another Samba server in the domain with security =
> server

use "security = domain".  add the other samba server to the domain just as
if it was an nt workstation (smbpasswd -a -m other_samba_server's_name).


> and password server = <samba_pdc name>.  HOWEVER,
> 
> 3.) Today's new issue is that the scheme above doesn't work quite right
> anymore.  I can no longer browse the machine above, a Samba server but
> not a PDC, running 1.9.18p7 with security=server and password server =
> (our Samba PDC server).  Browsing gets "access denied" but mounting works
> fine using NET USE.

send us sone smb.conf files to the list: let's have a look.

> 
> I'll put the log in http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin/samba.twins.log
> for your reading enjoyment :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
> Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
> 2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
> http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199
> 
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 May 1998, Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
> > > Has anyone figured out a pattern and/or a preventative measure for the
> > > phenomenon of machines spontaneously not having valid machine accounts?
> > > It seems to happen every once in a while, and you have to un-join the
> > > domain and then re-join it; kind of a bother.
> > 
> > When you have this problem, could you stop smbd and restart it with a
> > debug level of 100, turn off and on the workstation, try to login again ?
> > 
> > and make the log available by ftp or http ?
> > 
> > 	Jean Francois
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Pinky: "What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"
> > Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky :
> > 	try to install Windows NT !"
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
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