AW: Very strange problems with SAMBA_TNG

[Jasper van der Neut]

At 22:19 15-2-00 +1100, Volker Christian wrote:
>I still have the same problem. Could it be, that we use a wrong libc? I use
>Slackware 4.0 and libc5.

I use Slackware with libc5 (version 5.4.33) too...

>The test, which Luke suggests, trying odd and even length names was not
>successful.
>A username shorter or equal than 3 characters works well but any username
>longer than 3
>characters crashes smbd.
>
>Any ideas out?

I tried using another compiler (gcc-2.7.2.1 instead of pgcc-2.91.60) but
that didn't make any difference.

Jasper


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: 	Jasper van der Neut [mailto:j.m.vanderneut at student.utwente.nl] 
>Gesendet:	Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:46 AM
>An:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
>Betreff:	Re: Very strange problems with SAMBA_TNG
>
>At 23:58 12-2-00 +1100, Volker Christian wrote:
>>
>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>I don't want to mess up this list with stupid questions, so if this is one
>>of these, please ignore it.
>>
>>I have a very strange problem when using one of the newer (and also the
>>newest I get today via cvs) tng-code. A approximately two weeks old code
>>works fine (I am sorry, I don't know exactly the day I checked the working
>>code out from the repository).
>>
>>The problem is the following. Every time I want connect to the server as a
>>user with a username longer then three characters smbd crashes. The effect
>>is the same when I want to join the domain maintained by the samba-PDC with
>>a WinNT box with a netbios-name longer then three characters. I really
>>played around long with it - also I set up a second linux-box with a late
>>tng-code - the effect is the same - smbd crashes if ... longer then three
>>character.
>>
>
>I think I have the same problem. With a username of 2 characters I can
>login,
>with a username of 6 characters in length it crashes. If I run the smbd in 
>gdb it crashes with 'cannot access memory at 0x660065'
>
>