[Samba] 2.2.3a PDC sometimes stops accepting logons

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Marshall, Joshua wrote:

> Is there a way to find out what the codes above are? They definitely come 
> in pairs and when you get a pair of 0x0's it fails and when you get a 0x7 
> it works.

see include/nameserv.h and look around for QUERYFORPDC.

> Another question is: Is there a way to test for a logon using smbclient
> or similar tool? I'd like to be able to get a job in cron to test
> whether it's working and alert me before the windows users start to
> complain.

Check out rpcclient in HEAD for some of the netlogon commands.





cheers, jerry
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