[Samba] Samba-3.0.4 - PANIC: Could not generate a machine SID

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:11:57PM -0400, Mike Box wrote:
> Thanks to Jim C. for his suggestion of winbind, which I will also pursue.
> 
> However, this specific problem was corrected by moving the "private" directory 
> from NFS to a local filesystem.
> 
> I recall experiencing this situation before.  Okay, Solaris gurus, what exactly 
> causes this problem?  Is it unique to Solaris?  Is it something to be avoided by 
> software (Samba) developers?

Solaris won't allow fcntl locks on mmap'ed files on an NFS mounted filesystem.
Some would call that a bug..... :-). Yes, it's unique to Solaris.

Jeremy.