losing connections to password server

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:38:16AM -0400, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> 
> Why does server_validate() simply give up rather than re-establishing
> its connection to the password server?  Though I am not fluent in the
> SMB protocol, perhaps the cluster server process passes along to its
> client workstation the session key it receives from the password
> server, which means the password hashes submitted by the client would
> not work on a subsequent connection, whose session key would be
> different.  So server_validate() must give up.

Indeed. That's why security = server is at best a nasty hack. Please
use security = domain.

Jeremy.