[Samba] Corrupted userid in mail folders - Crisis

[Roland Giesler]

I've run the script that I posted earlier, and everything seems fine.

I'll monitor the situation over the next hour or more to see what happens.
The only effective change I made is that I stopped the nscd service.

Roland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+roland=giesler.za.net at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-bounces+roland=giesler.za.net at lists.samba.org] 
> On Behalf Of Roland Giesler
> Sent: 22 September 2004 09:55
> To: 'Christoph Scheeder'
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Corrupted userid in mail folders - Crisis
> 
> 
> > 
> > > [root at inet root]# getent passwd canhal
> > > canhal:x:10167:10000::/home/RHENGHS/canhal:/bin/bash
> > > 
> > > So you can see that the correct user should be 10167, not 10585
> > 
> > No, i bet the number reported from getent is changing.
>  
> Ah, I understand what you mean.  Let me check that.  I need a 
> predetermined mailbox to get corrupted... One that I know the 
> userid number of.
> 
> Ok, found one.  You're right.  The userid doesn't change, the 
> mapping does
> 
> [root at inet samba]# ls -l /home/RHENGHS/elahyl
> total 12
> drwx------  7 zelbeu Domain Users 4096 Aug 14 21:36 Maildir/
> drwx------  2 zelbeu Domain Users 4096 Feb 23  2002 tmp/ 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 zelbeu Domain Users 4096 Jun 20  2002 webpage/ 
> [root at inet samba]# getent passwd zelbeu 
> zelbeu:x:10865:10000::/home/RHENGHS/zelbeu:/bin/bash
> [root at inet samba]#
> 
> User elahyl is 10000 - that I know.  
> [root at inet samba]# getent passwd elahyl 
> elahyl:x:10000:10000::/home/RHENGHS/elahyl:/bin/bash
> [root at inet samba]#
> 
> I guess the userid on the folders is wrong now because I ran 
> my "fixing" script.  I'm going to run it again, since I 
> change the slow hub to a switch and stopped the nscd service. 
>  The I'll see what happens.
> 
> Roland
> 
> > > Also SMB hangs after a few hours.  When I left last night,
> > everything
> > > had been running fine for about 2 hours.  When I got to work this
> > > morning, no-one was authenticated.  When I tried to ls a 
> > user dir, I
> > > got not response. On issuing the reboot command I saw on
> > the console
> > > that there was no process SMB.  Here are the SMB messages 
> in syslog.
> > > 
> > 
> > How was your samba installed? Was it compiled from source or are the
> > package(s) from your distribution installed?
> > 
> > Christoph
> > 
> 
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