Weekly machine password changes (RE: RE: [Samba] odd: everything SHOULD work... winbind)

[Wolfram Quester]

Hi Nir, 

I think the password changing is initiated by the client. Perhaps these
two articles from MS knowledge base are of interest:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q154501
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q154501

I hope this helps,

Wolfi


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> 
> No big surprise there. :)
> 
> I'm still trying to figure exactly what goes on with the machine
> password changing around. Who initiates this? nmbd? The PDC? Who's
> notified of this change, and what's going on there.
> 
> Perhaps someone can shed some light?
> 
> 
> --
> Nir Soffer -=- Software Engineer, Exanet Inc. -=-
> "Father, why are all the children weeping? / They are merely crying son
>  O, are they merely crying, father? / Yes, true weeping is yet to come"
>         -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Weeping Song
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Leuser II [mailto:dleuser at newhampton.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:28 PM
> > To: Nir Soffer
> > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: RE: [Samba] odd: everything SHOULD work... winbind
> > 
> > 
> > Restarting winbind didn't change things at all... I honestly 
> > have no idea
> > what caused it, but I rejoined my server to the domain with 
> > smbpasswd, and
> > the problems dissappeared.  Go figure.
> > 
> > nirs at exanet.com writes:
> > 
> > I've seen a similar problem to that when running winbind... Try
> > restarting winbind? I'm starting to have a feeling that if the machine
> > password is reset by nmbd, winbindd never finds out.
> > 
> > Anyone have any comments to that regard? I'm trying to reproduce the
> > problem in a controlled environment right now, but have yet to see it
> > again.
> > 
> > Nir.
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Nir Soffer -=- Software Engineer, Exanet Inc. -=-
> > "Father, why are all the children weeping? / They are merely 
> > crying son
> >  O, are they merely crying, father? / Yes, true weeping is 
> > yet to come"
> >         -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Weeping Song
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Leuser II [mailto:dleuser at newhampton.org]
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:04 AM
> > > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: [Samba] odd: everything SHOULD work... winbind
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > i had everything samba working PERFECT a few days ago, 
> > > meantime something
> > > has changed or something i've changed, i know not what, is 
> > > causing me to
> > > not be able to authenticate domain users... it just plain 
> > > doesn't work.  i
> > > haven't changed anything in /etc/pam.d/, but i checked on it and
> > > everything there is still ok.... wbinfo -u lists all the 
> > > users just swell.
> > >  One wierd thing i noticed (beside the problem), if i do "ps 
> > > -aux | grep
> > > winbind" winbind doesn't show, but if i just "ps -aux" it IS in THAT
> > > list... 
> > > 
> > > i was messing around with red hats print manager utility 
> > > (which somehow is
> > > supposed to use samba's smbclient, didn't work btw)... i 
> > don't know if
> > > that broke something?  any ideas?
> > > 
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > ________________________________________
> > > David M. Leuser, II
> > > Assistant Network Administrator
> > > New Hampton School
> > > (603) 744-3182 x121
> > > dleuser at newhampton.org
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> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > David M. Leuser, II
> > Assistant Network Administrator
> > New Hampton School
> > (603) 744-3182 x121
> > dleuser at newhampton.org
> > ________________________________________
> > "Picture the root account as a magic hat that gives you lots of power,
> > with which you can, by waving your hands, create or destroy 
> > entire cities.
> > Because it is easy to wave your hands in a destructive 
> > manner, it is not a
> > good idea to wear the magic hat when it is not needed, despite the
> > wonderful feeling. " -- Gnome User's Guide
> > 
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