Issue with Computer Management

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ravi Mulam <rmulam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   When I use "Computer Management" on a windows 7 machine to connect to my
> samba server (3.4.5), it connects fine. When I try to edit a built-in
> Administrators group (adding a new member to the group), the client times
> out complaining that RPC to the server is not available. This happens only
> on a specific windows 7 - samba server setup. When I try the same task on a
> different setup that I have (a different client and different samba server
> which is running the same binaries), it succeeds. I did not see anything bad
> reported in the samba logs except the client log. I see an assert. Can
> anyone explain what is going wrong.

Can you upgrade to 3.5.15 or even 3.6.x? However, I don't promise that
that will fix your problem. The version you are running is returning
an RPC fault on the winreg pipe seemingly because it does not like the
fragment length.

Can you get a tcpdump capture?

> Thanks
> Ravi
>
>
> [2012/05/25 23:00:33, 10]
> rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:672(process_incoming_data)
>  process_incoming_data: Start: pdu_received_len = 16, pdu_needed_len = 0,
> incoming data = 4511
> [2012/05/25 23:00:33,  5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:88(prs_debug)
>  000000 smb_io_rpc_hdr
>      0000 major     : 05
>      0001 minor     : 00
>      0002 pkt_type  : 0b
>      0003 flags     : 07
>      0004 pack_type0: 10
>      0005 pack_type1: 00
>      0006 pack_type2: 00
>      0007 pack_type3: 00
>      0008 frag_len  : 11af
>      000a auth_len  : 1107
>      000c call_id   : 00000002
> [2012/05/25 23:00:33,  5]
> rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:288(unmarshall_rpc_header)
>  unmarshall_rpc_header: using little-endian RPC
> [2012/05/25 23:00:33,  0]
> rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:310(unmarshall_rpc_header)
>  unmarshall_rpc_header: assert on frag length failed.
> [2012/05/25 23:00:33, 10] rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:179(set_incoming_fault)
>  set_incoming_fault: Setting fault state on pipe \winreg
>
>
>



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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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