[Samba] Error was Transport endpoint is not connected

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:49 am, Meli Marco wrote:
> Hi,
> I running samba 3.0.13 on RH9, and share a folder in a mix network
> workstations (W2k, DOS, Win98SE, NT4) and I have set following smb.conf
> file:
>
>  netbios name = NETBIOSNAME
>         os level = 16
>         wins server = 10.90.17.80
>         socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
>         workgroup = DOMAIN
>         realm = DOMAIN.COM
>         security = ADS
>         password server = kdcsrv.sinter.gkn.com
>         encrypt passwords = yes
> #       null passwords = yes
> #       auth methods = guest sam_ignoredomain winbind:ntdomain
>         allow trusted domains = Yes
>         winbind use default domain = Yes
>         winbind separator = /
>         winbind enum users = Yes
>         winbind enum groups = yes
>         idmap uid = 10000-100000
>         idmap gid = 10000-100000
>         hide unreadable = Yes
>         template homedir = /data/user/%U
>         template shell = /bin/false
>         use sendfile = No
>         printer admin = ***
>         admin users = ***
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         log level = 1 auth:5 sam:5
>         max log size = 50
>         printing = cups
>         printcap name = cups
>         load printers = Yes
>         map acl inherit = Yes
>         nt acl support = Yes
>
> Yesterday some local users doesn't login on the samba share, if I get in
> the window property panel I have noticed that these users was replaced by
> others (maybe id mapping problem) so I decided to relocate them on Windows
> 2003, delete them by the smbpasswd file and /etc/smbpasswd, run tdbbackup
> tool and disable auth methods option (no more local users authentication).
> Today everithing seems works fine but I have stranges messages by winbind
> and smbd log file again:
>
> Tail -f /var/log/samba/log.winbindd:
> [2005/04/06 10:29:53, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(161)
>   user 'MILSALHP2200D_1' does not exist					<-
> this is a printer!
> [2005/04/06 10:33:01, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_sid.c:winbindd_gid_to_sid(474)
>   Could not convert gid 24329 to sid
>
> Tail -f /var/log/samba/log.smbd:
> [2005/04/06 08:33:57, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1150)
>   getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
> [2005/04/06 08:58:21, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1150)
>   getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
>
> How can I fix it?
> Thanks.
> Marco.

As I recall, it has something to do with smb trying to use both ports 139 and 
445, and there being some contention there.  Try adding the following to your 
smb.conf file:  smb ports = 445 (the default is smbports = 445 139).  At 
least this worked for me.

Dimitri