[Samba] Weird..

[Tim Kubricht]

Igor,
I found this on the MACHINE.SID  from a file on Samba-HowTo had found a 
Troubleshooting doc that suggested
removing all the files in private.  But I wanted to confirm that before I 
suggested it.
I have removed the secrets.tdb file and started samba and it did re-create 
the secrets.tdb
file.  net view \\computer_name did show my shares as expected.

Thomas Klettke wrote that you may need to go to the PDC system and remove 
the computer name
from the server list for new systems to be added.  I agree this may also 
need to be done.
Regards,
Tim
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The file private/MACHINE.SID identifies the domain. When a samba server is 
first started, it is
created on the fly and must never be changed again. This file has to be the 
same on the PDC and the
BDC, so the MACHINE.SID has to be copied from the PDC to the BDC. Note that 
in the latest
Samba 2.2.x releases, the machine SID (and therefore domain SID) is stored 
in the
private/secrets.tdb database. This file cannot just be copied because Samba 
looks under the
key SECRETS/SID/DOMAIN. where DOMAIN is the machine's netbios name. Since 
this name has
to be unique for each SAMBA server, this lookup will fail.
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At 02:50 PM 2/28/2003 -0300, Igor Debacker wrote:
>i deleted that file and the error goes on..
>
>any other idea ?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Kubricht" <kubricht at houston.oilfield.slb.com>
>To: "Igor Debacker" <igor at ccj.ufsc.br>; <samba at samba.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Weird..
>
>
> > Igor,
> >
> >      1st shut down samba then look in the samba/private directory
> >      for a file called MACHINE.SID and delete the file.
> >
> >      when you start Samba back up it will recreate the file.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tim
> >
>____________________________________________________________________________
>___
> > At 07:03 PM 2/27/2003 -0300, Igor Debacker wrote:
> > >I have a machine with 'samba + winbind' installed ... everything works
>fine.
> > >
> > >its my beta-machine.. so i used norton ghost to clone it to another
> > >computers, and as usual it works good, so i decided to do it with 5
> > >machines. at the end of the procedure i changed the ip of each one and
>the
> > >netbios name....
> > >
> > >so i have 5 cloned machines with 'winbind+samba' and thats good.. but if
>i
> > >turn all of them on, together, i can only log in at the last one i turned
> > >on.. at all others machines i can't log in.. it shows me this error
> > >
> > >cli_net_auth2: error nt_status_access_denied
> > >
> > >cli_nt_setup_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed
> > >
> > >connect_to_domain_password_server: unable to setup the PDC credentials to
> > >machine KANT. error was: nt_status_ok
> > >
> > >domain_client_validate: domain password server not available.
> > >
> > >so.. individually the machines are working but in someway they are
> > >conflicting and i don't know where...
> > >
> > >Thanx in advance,
> > >
> > >Igor
> > >
> > >OBS.: KANT is my PDC machine name....
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