[Samba] tdb_oob len 1111638618 beyond eof at 8192 in secrets.tbd

[Gerald Carter]

On 15 May 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 19:18, David Rumohr wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  I don't know if this is the correct channel to ask questions about
> > samba configuration errors so I apologize if it is not. I recently
> > installed samba 2.2.2 on an IRIX 5.3 machine and everytime I run the
> > command
> > 
> > smbpasswd -j <DOMAIN>
> > 
> > I receive the error:
> > 
> > tdb(/usr/local/samba/private/secrets.tdb): tdb_oob len 1111638618
> > beyond eof at 8192 Unable to write the machine account password for
> > machine <Server NetBIOS name> in domain <DOMAIN>.
> > 
> that sounds like corrupt tdb files to me...
> since your just starting out with samba it's probably 
> safe to delete those files (in /var/lock or somewhere similar) and
> restart samba.

You should look at 2.2.4.  There was a big-endian related bug fixed 
between 2.2.3a and 2.2.4.








cheers, jerry
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