Samba refusing connection after machine account password change

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:54 +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> On 24 March 2011 16:52, Dave Daugherty <dave.daugherty at centrify.com> wrote:
> > We too are currently investigating perhaps the same issue.
> 
> While I was away from the office, we had a similar issue with user
> accounts; users are receiving messages that there user name and
> passwords are invalid even after resetting their details.
> 
> These accounts work fine if accessed through a newly introduced
> Win2003R2 AD server and new accounts work fine.

It sounds to me like your two servers are not replicating.  This is
quite a different issue to what is being discussed in this thread.  

> This is with Samba v4-alpha13.  Unfortunately, there is nothing
> obvious in the logs and I do not have time to devote to bug chasing at
> the moment; is there a tidy way to demote a samba DC?

Turn it off, and use the AD tools to remove it as 'permanently offline'.  Don't turn it on until you have wiped to local private directory.

Andrew Bartlett

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Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.