Samba TNG - "Broken pipe" with samedit

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Jun 17 08:22:42 GMT 2002


On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Gerald Carter wrote:

> This is really a question for the sambatng lists.  See 
> http://lists.samba-tng.org/

His original problem was that Samba 2.2.4+ does not allow WinXP clients to 
join the domain, so I suggested he ask here. He has just asked the wrong 
question.

> > G'day.
> > 
> > I've sent this questions to quite a few mailing lists, but nobody seems to
> > be able to help.
> > 
> > My setup: FreeBSD box, acting as a PDC, with 14 XP workstations
> > authenticating.  I'm not really trying to do anything fancy.
> > 
> > I could not get Samba 2.2.4 to run as a PDC - even with the registry patch
> > (which did make -TNG work).  I even tried downgrading and trying 3.0 from
> > (which just core dumped on me).
> > 
> > I'll paste part of the email I sent to the other lists.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time; and if anybody knows of a solution (end result: PDC
> > for XP machines), please, reply ;)
> > 
> > - Ryan
> > 
> > > The error I get:
> > > 
> > > root at server[/usr/local/private]# samedit -S.
> > > added interface ip=203.45.72.85 bcast=203.45.73.255 nmask=255.255.254.0
> > > added interface ip=10.12.0.1 bcast=10.12.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > > [ROOT at .]$ createuser xp_machine2$
> > > createuser xp_machine2$
> > > Broken pipe
> > > 
> > > I get this for any user/machine I'm trying to add.  The users exist.  This was
> > > working perfectly a week ago.
> > > 
> > > I just tried recompiling samba-tng and removing /usr/local/private/smbpasswd,
> > > but its to no avail.
> > > 
> > > The samba-tng daemons I'm running are the following:
> > > 
> > > 41836  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D
> > > 41838  ??  Ss     0:00.12 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D
> > > 41840  ??  I      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D
> > > 41841  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/samrd -D
> > > 41843  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/lsarpcd -D
> > > 41845  ??  IWs    0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/netlogond -D
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com





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