[Samba] HELP Samba suddenly stopped working

[Rob Keeling]

matt at rfbs.com.au wrote:
> can some one help me....
> 
> We are running samba on a mandrake v10 machine and suddenly we can't access the
> samba shares.
> 
> it is in an ADS with MS sbs2003 as the PDC the error in the samba logs is
> 
> Aug 28 08:50:06 hermes smbd[27096]: [2005/08/28 08:50:06, 0]
> auth/auth_domain.c:connect_to_domain_password_server(123)
> Aug 28 08:50:06 hermes smbd[27096]:   connect_to_domain_password_server: unable
> to setup the NETLOGON credentials to machine SBS2003. Error was :
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.
> 
> 
> It has been running fine for 8 months and suddenly stopped on the 28th of ug
> nothing has been changed on either machine as I have been away from work for
> the past 2 weeks and no one else has permissions.
> 
> it is urgent that we get this fixed but i can't work out what is wrong.
> 
Just a thought, what version of samba are you running?

We upgraded to win 2003 sp1 which will not work with samba less than 
3.0.14a. Could your windows box have run windows update automatically?

I don`t know if the error your getting fits with that problem. Does 
event viewer show any errors on the windows side?

Post your samba version etc, and the experts on this list may well be 
able to tell you what the problem is.

Rob Keeling