[Samba] intermitent domain logon failures

[John H Terpstra]

Robert,

Suggest you update to the latest stable release 2.2.6, you may find this
problem will go away.

- John T.

On 28 Oct 2002, Robert Stanford wrote:

> I have an issue where at odd times, maybe after 3 days, maybe after a
> week, people suddenly cant do domain logons. Unfortunately the machine
> is 50km away so i'm sure theres more details I can glean once I can
> interogate the users a bit more.
>
> Things I have noticed:
> Anyone currently logged in can still work fine.
> A restart of samba fixes the issue (till it hapens next).
> ps ax shows smbd and nmbd still running.
> I forgot to run netstat so unfortunately can't comment if they were
> listening.
>
> However I did manage to grab a snapshots of the logs up to the point
> samba was restarted. Heres a couple of snippets
>
>  tail nmbd.log
> [2002/10/28 08:23:17, 1]
> nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(69)
>   process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.0.113: code = 0x12
> [2002/10/28 08:32:28, 1]
> nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(69)
>   process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.0.110: code = 0x12
> [2002/10/28 08:32:28, 1]
> nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(69)
>   process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.0.110: code = 0x12
> [2002/10/28 08:34:02, 1]
> nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(69)
>   process_logon_packet: Logon from 10.0.0.109: code = 0x0
> [2002/10/28 08:34:34, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:sig_term(63)
>   Got SIGTERM: going down...
>
>  tail smbd.log
> [2002/10/21 21:30:57, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(48)
>   Yielding connection to
> [2002/10/21 21:30:57, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(492)
>   Server exit (caught signal)
> [2002/10/27 06:25:34, 0] smbd/server.c:sig_hup(384)
>   Got SIGHUP
> [2002/10/27 06:25:34, 1] smbd/server.c:open_sockets(220)
>   Reloading services after SIGHUP
> [2002/10/27 06:25:35, 1] lib/debug.c:debug_message(250)
>   INFO: Debug class all level = 1   (pid 18438 from pid 18438)
>
> We are running Debian woody
> with samba 2.2.3a-6
> and Linux 2.4.19 i686
>
> ---smb.conf---
>
> [global]
>     workgroup = diggers
>     server string = %h server (Samba %v)
>     load printers = yes
>     netbios name = admin
>     domain logons = yes
>     security = user
>     os level = 34
>     local master = yes
>     preferred master = yes
>     domain master = yes
>     time server = yes
>     wins support = yes
>     name resolve order = wins bcast lmhosts
>     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>     encrypt passwords = yes
>     unix password sync = yes
>     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>     passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
> *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
> #    use spnego = no
>     domain admin group = lynj
>     log level = 1
>     log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>     load printers = yes
>     printcap name = /etc/printcap.cups
>     printing = cups
>     logon script = logon.bat
>
> [homes]
>     comment = Home Directories
>     read only = No
>     create mask = 0770
>     directory mask = 0770
>     browseable = No
>     writeable = yes
>
> [netlogon]
>     comment = Domain logon services
>     path = /home/netlogon
>     public = no
>     writeable = no
>     browseable = no
>
> other shares...
>
> ---end smb.conf---
> ---
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>    Robert Stanford
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org