[Samba] Sick Samba 3.0.14a-3 Server - in a world of pain!

[Louis van Belle]

Hi, i know this problem, is not samba but ldap
do you have nscd installed? 

last weekend i had a similar problem, 
after a /etc/init.d/samba restart
my samba produced errors. 

i had to restarted samba again, restarted ldap still no go.
i rebooted the complete server, and... no samba.

i removed nscd for the server, stopped samba and ldap
i reset the Administrator password with smbpasswd -w
and first started ldap, then started samba again.
then it was working gain.

i think its ldap generating the logon problems, but im not sure.

Louis

>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: samba-bounces+louis=van-belle.nl at lists.samba.org 
>[mailto:samba-bounces+louis=van-belle.nl at lists.samba.org] 
>Namens JB Hewitt
>Verzonden: woensdag 23 november 2005 0:36
>Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: [Samba] Sick Samba 3.0.14a-3 Server - in a world of pain!
>
>I wrote such a generic subject line because I'm stuck and not quite
>sure where to go...
>
>It's a Samba 3.0.14a-3 server running on Debian stable.  It uses LDAP
>authentication and is the primary Domain server on the network.
>Until around a month ago the server '''seemed''' to be fine, but now I
>have to massage it to life every morning just so the users can access
>it (killall -9 smbd, restart samba until most people can see it).
>The clients are primarly WinXP SP2 machines with a few Win2K 
>and one NT.
>
>Here's the symptoms.
>1) log.smbd was showing the following errors repeatedly " getpeername
>failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2005/10/24
>08:00:40, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1150)"
>I thought this would solve the problem of
>So after scanning through the mail archives I gleemed that it could be
>a problem with port issues, so I added smb ports = 139 into the
>smb.conf and viola the error message dissapeared.
>However the 'hanging' samba server issue
>
>2) The server hangs, in pieces.  It continually spawns smbd processes,
>however for the clients that cannot connect to the server (forever
>timing out) will never successfully connect to it until samba is
>shutdown forcibly.  Even then it takes a few times before the system
>is working again.
>
>3) nmblookup hq (the server name) yeilds nothing.  Whilst Wins is
>working on the clients and nmbd.log shows it is the Wins server,
>nmblookup on the actual server doesn't work.  Not critical, but
>wondering if it could be related.
>
>4) I cannot find anything in the logs that looks wrong.  I possibly
>need some more diagnostics to figure out the cause.
>
>And last, here's a dump of the config file:
>
># Global parameters
>[global]
>        unix charset = ISO8859-1
>        workgroup = WORKGROUP
>        server string = HQ
>        interfaces = 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
>        passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost
>        pam password change = Yes
>        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>        unix password sync = Yes
>        log level = 4
>        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>        max log size = 50
>        smb ports = 139
>        announce version = 4.8
>        load printers = No
>        printcap name = /dev/null
>        add machine script = "/usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w %u"
>        logon script = logon.bat
>        logon path = \\%L\%U\profile
>        logon drive = p:
>        logon home = \\%L\%U
>        domain logons = Yes
>        os level = 60
>        preferred master = Yes
>        domain master = Yes
>        dns proxy = No
>        wins support = Yes
>        ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=soapbox
>        ldap group suffix = ou=Groups
>        ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap,ou=Systems
>        ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers
>        ldap passwd sync = Yes
>        ldap suffix = dc=soapbox
>        ldap user suffix = ou=People
>        create mask = 0660
>        directory mask = 0775
>        hosts allow = 192.168., 127., 10.0.0.
>        use sendfile = Yes
>        case sensitive = No
>        short preserve case = No
>        veto oplock files = /*.QBW/*.bat/*.mdb/
>
>[share]
>        comment = Shared Directory
>        path = /srv
>        read only = No
>
>[companyshared]
>        comment = share
>        path = /srv/companyshared
>        read only = No
>
>
>[homes]
>        comment = Home Directory for '%u'
>        read only = No
>        browseable = No
>
>[home]
>        path = /home
>        read only = No
>        browseable = No
>
>[profiles]
>        path = /home/samba/profiles/
>        read only = No
>        create mask = 0600
>        directory mask = 0700
>        profile acls = Yes
>        preserve case = No
>        hide files = /desktop.ini/ntuser.ini/NTUSER.*/.*/
>        browseable = No
>
>[netlogon]
>        comment = Network Logon Service
>        path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>        guest ok = Yes
>        browseable = No
>
>[printers]
>        comment = All printers
>        path = /var/spool/samba
>        printer admin = root, @ntadmins
>        guest ok = Yes
>        printable = Yes
>        browseable = No
>
>[PRINT$]
>        path = /home/samba/printers
>        write list = @wheel, root, administrator, rick, pam
>        create mask = 0644
>        directory mask = 0755
>        guest ok = Yes
>
>--
>Regards,
>      JB Hewitt
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