[Samba] Samba not accepting authentication information

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:40:49PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> during the past few months we have seen samba suddently refusing to
> accept authentication information. A restart of samba is required in
> order to fix it.
> 
> The symptomes are that user's can log in to their Win2K clients using
> the domain account, but they get a message during log in saying they do
> not have access to their own profile.
> 
> Trying to browse the server is not possible; it won't accept
> usernames/passwords at all.
> 
> There is nothing in the logs that we can attribute to this problem. So
> far it's a mystery. It seems that people who are already logged in are
> still able to access their file normally; it just won't accept new
> authentications.
> 
> Has anyone had this problem? Any ideas?

What version of Samba. Can you use smbcontrol to raise the debug
level when the problem occurs to debug it ?

Jeremy.