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[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hello Basso,
We've seen some problems with timing on HP-UX with NIS and Samba that look
similar.
Don't have a handle on it yet.  But a couple of things to check - make sure
that you have
a process running called pwgrd; looks something like:
 
   root  1547     1  0 07:46:40 ?         0:04 /usr/sbin/pwgrd 
 
This is used to speed up lookups via hash tables, etc.
 
Also, the gid -2 error you are getting is probably because you haven't
defined a 
guest account = xxxxxxx in your smb.conf file; if you do not assign this to
a dummy 
user in /etc/passwd, then it will default to using the nobody account, who
has a uid/gid
of -2; and samba is NOT good with handling uid/gid's that are negative, and
will cause
problems.  I use the following; in global section of smb.conf:
 
     guest account = pcguest
 
in /etc/passwd:
 
    pcguest:*:277:20:sambauser::/bin/false
 
Hope this helps,
Don

 
 
 

-----Original Message-----  
From: Basso Viviana-avb012 [mailto:Viviana_Basso-avb012 at email.mot.com]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:44 AM
To: samba at us5.samba.org
Subject: (no subject)



    Hi everybody!
    I'm having an anoying problem with Samba.
    This is the scenario:
            Unix HP-UX 10.20
            Authentication through NIS
            Samba Server  2.0.3
            NT 4 (SP5) or Windows 2000 clients.
   
    Situation:
            Once in a while one of the users can't map their directory at
the samba server. It keeps asking user and password (it shouldn't because
the configuration we have never ask for those). Even though the users enter
their Unix names and passwords they aren't able to connect.
            The problem gets pretty awful when a user has to reset his/her
machine. At next logon his/her NT 4 /Windows 2000 gets locked and they can't
log in their Windows accounts.
            This doesn't seem to happen for on particular reason.
            We couldn't re-create this error.
            The smbd.log gives me these two messages for every refused
connection
   
          
        [2000/11/03 13:17:25, 0] smbd/uid.c:(104)
        Couldn't set effective gid to -2 currently set to (real=0,eff=0)
        [2000/11/03 13:17:25, 0] smbd/service.c:(425)
        Can't become connected user!

            I have no idea of what's the reason for the account locked and
all that. Can anybody help me???

            Thank you,

                    

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Viviana V. Basso GTSS - CS 
Unix Regional Support 
Motorola Argentina S.A. 
Email: avb012 at email.mot.com