Odd error message in winbind

[Nir Soffer]

> > On a Linux machine, running Samba 2.2.4, we got this error message:
> > 
> > Aug  7 01:47:01 node1-mgmt winbindd[7034]: [2002/08/07 01:47:01, 0]
> > rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(359)
> > Aug  7 01:47:01 node1-mgmt winbindd[7034]:   cli_pipe: 
> return critical
> > error. Error was SUCCESS - 0
> > 
> > Previous to that error message, winbindd ran without fault 
> for nearly 30
> > days.
> 
> The DC 'went away'.  (Which closed the pipe, and left 0 in the error
> feild - yes we need a better way do handle this...).

I guessed something to that effect, but I don't believe something
happened to the DC, that's what's bothering me. I'll need to check that
out.

So if hit this DEBUG statement 
 DEBUG(0, ("cli_pipe: return critical error. Error was %s\n",
cli_errstr(cli)));

When the error is 0 I should:

DEBUG(0, ("cli_pipe: Critical error - the pipe has closed. The DC has
probably been disconnected") )

or something?

need a patch?

> It looks like the PDC has changed the machine account password on the
> account, your local machine name has changed or the account on the DC
> has been deleted.  Could the DC have been restored from a backup, with
> 'old' passwords?

I believe not... As I said, I will have to check that out.

> Anyway, try a rejoin and see if that helps.

I was hoping to avoid a machine account reset, or a rejoin, but I
assumed that's what I'll have to do anyway.

Thanks!
Nir.

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