[Samba] occassionally : no domain controller available

[Charles Marcus]

I had some really weird problems just like this for a while, and finally figured out by accident (our acocuntant was late coming in) that everything worked fine until a few seconds after she turned her computer on.  It was apparently a bad NIC, although it worked fine with a Win2K server - go figure...

Don't know if this is your problem, but...

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of pilsl at goldfisch.at
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:03 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] occassionally : no domain controller available
> 
> 
> I'm using samba 2.2.3a as fileserver and domaincontroller for 12
> NT4-clients (sp6a) and occassionally - when a user tries to logon -
> there comes the following messages on the nt-client:
> -
> No Windows NT Domain Controller is available for domain XXXX. 
> There are
> currently no logonservers available to service the logonrequest.
> -
> and
> -
> server-side profile not available. The OS tries to log you on with
> your local profile.
> -
> 
> There is no visible pattern when this error occures. Sometime no
> machine has this error at all in the morning, sometimes 3 or 4 and
> sometimes only 1 machine. The error is also not related to the
> peaktime in the morning.
> 
> I run several very similar samba-installations and I never ran into
> such a problem. After the user is logged on (with its local profile)
> he can access the server as fileserver without any problems.
> 
> I currently work with debug-level 3 and cant find the problem. (There
> are some errors in the log of course, but the very same errors occures
> on different machines with no such problems this day).  The client
> just seems not to access the roaming profile. There is no access to
> NTUSER.DAT for example, so the problem seems to happen before.  I
> compared logfiles which a successful logon and a "failed" logon and
> just cant figure out the problem ..
> 
> there are almost certainly no networktroubles and I reapplied sp6a to
> all clients and I also removed and readded affected clients from and
> to the domain again without any help ...
> 
> I put the logfiles of one client where this problems happend today at
> 9:30 together with the serverlog and my smb.conf in a tgz-file at
> http://www.goldfisch.at/temp/smb.tgz
> 
> The problem happened at 9:30 when user "elisabeth" tried to logon and
> client and server are in sync for their systemtime.
> 
> maybe anyone can help me here. feel kinda doomed ...
> 
> thnx,
> peter
> 
> 
> 
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