[Samba] looping logins

[Phil Chambers]

I have a VERY worrying situation.  This is all SAMBA_2_2_5 with ldap.  I have a 
SAMBA PDC with several SAMBA servers and loads of WindowsXP workstations.  The SAMBA 
servers and XP Pcs are all joined into the PDC domain.  Logging on the PDC is 
..../%m.log so that I get a log for each PC.

When I look at the cpu usage on the PDC system one process is continuouly using 25%. 
If I set debug level 10 there is continuous output to one PC's log file.  I am not 
good at working out what exectly is happening but it appears that there are repeated 
login attempts for one user from that PC (in any event, SAMBA keeps looking up the 
user's ldap entry, successfully). I look at the PC and it is sitting on the XP login 
window waiting to be given a username and password.  If I re-boot the PC the problem 
moves to another PC which is just sitting on the XP login window. The same username 
all the time, though it is now a different unix process ID.

I can't start to imagine what is going on.  Help please.

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter