Occasional failure of authentication

[Alvin Dulcan]

Every once in a while a user cannot connect to one of two samba
servers.  Most of the time (but not always), if he waits 15 minutes
to an hour, he can connect successfully.  Sometimes he can connect to
one server, but not the other, which have the same configuration.
We are using authentication from the NT server.  Samba version 2.0.3

The messages in the log file are are shown below.  In this case the user
was able to reconnect quickly, but this is not always the case.
We do not even want to use smbpasswd, but it looks anyway after failing
on the password server.

  weed (158.184.45.179) connect to service siskw as user siskw
(uid=30744, gid=19) (pid 8232)
[1999/11/09 15:25:55, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(514)
  weed (0.0.0.0) closed connection to service siskw
[1999/11/09 15:42:45, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1127)
  password server 158.184.3.244 rejected the password
[1999/11/09 15:42:46, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50)
  startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file
/usr/local/samba2/private/smbpasswd
[1999/11/09 15:42:46, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147)
  unable to open smb password database.
[1999/11/09 15:42:46, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'siskw' in smb_passwd file.
[1999/11/09 15:42:46, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent(50)
  startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file
/usr/local/samba2/private/smbpasswd
[1999/11/09 15:42:46, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(147)
  unable to open smb password database.
[1999/11/09 15:42:46, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'siskw' in smb_passwd file.
[1999/11/09 15:50:20, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488)
  weed (158.184.45.179) connect to service siskw as user siskw
(uid=30744, gid=19) (pid 8268)


We have about 120 users off and on connecting to a Sun Ultra5 and
Ultra30 Solaris 5.6 samba server.
Most people connect from NT 4.0 systems without the plain password
registry change.
Some users connect from a WTS/Metaframe and from NT 4.0 with the plain
password registry change.

[global]
   printing = sysv
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   load printers = yes
   guest account =  nobody
   password level = 8
   socket options = SO_REUSEADDR
   workgroup = SAMBA
   keepalive = 7200
   log file = /usr/samba/var/log.%m_%a

security =        server
password server = 158.184.3.244
wins server =     158.184.3.58

   lock directory = /usr/samba/locks
   share modes = yes

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   read only = no
   create mode = 0644



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