[Samba] AIX 53TL8 Samba 3.2.4 Active Directory Win2k3 - "session setup failed: Call returned zero bytes (EOF)"

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:03:32PM -0800, Mark Taylor wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am using Samba 3.2.4 compiled from source on AIX 5.3 TL8 and using
> "security = SERVER" in the smb.conf works fine, however I am having
> some issues when using "security = ADS" ..
> 
> I have followed numerous HOWTOs and newsgroup listings and seem to be
> going round in circles ..
> 
> I think I can authenticate ok against the domain win2k3 server, but
> then Samba bombs out with the following errors fvrom smbclient on the
> host:
> 
> $ LIBPATH=/opt/pware/lib:/usr/local/samba/lib /usr/local/samba/bin/
> smbclient -L myhostname -U UK+myusername
> Enter UK+myusername's password: mypassword
> Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding
> session setup failed: Call returned zero bytes (EOF)
> 
> Also mapping from a windows system just gives the message "The mapped
> network drive could not be created because the following error has
> occured: The specified network name is no longer available."
> 
> Excuse the LIBPATH stuff it is to get around kinit and klist not
> working if I set the variable permanently.  I was originally using
> 3.0.28 pre-compiled from samba.org and got the same issues.
> 
> So, I think I am authenticating ok .. but where to go from here
> because I get the "session setup failed: Call returned zero bytes
> (EOF)" error and I can see  the following errors in the "smbd.log"
> 
> $ cat smbd.log
> <snip>
> [2008/11/25 14:49:43,  2] lib/messages_local.c:message_notify(270)
> message to process 94214 failed - No such process
> [2008/11/25 14:49:43,  2] lib/messages_local.c:messaging_tdb_send(358)
> pid 94214 doesn't exist - deleting messages record
> [2008/11/25 14:49:43,  2] lib/messages.c:traverse_fn(127)
> pid 94214 doesn't exist - deleting connections -1 []
> <snip>

Post a debug level 10 log, there isn't enough information
here to understand what's going on.

Thanks,

Jeremy.