[Samba] Samba Panic when attempting to connect using OS X cli ent (3.3.7)

[Doug Sampson]

> > > 
> > > Am running Samba 3.3.7 on FreeBSD 7.1. All Windows clients 
> > > (W2K & WXP) can
> > > connect fine but cannot connect any OS X clients (version 
> > > 10.4 & 10.5).
> > > These OS X client receive an error message saying it cannot 
> > > connect. The log
> > > indicates the following:
> > > 
> > > [2009/09/04 12:26:19,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
> > >   ===============================================================
> > > [2009/09/04 12:26:19,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
> > >   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 52669 (3.3.7)
> > >   Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba3-HOWTO
> > > [2009/09/04 12:26:19,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(43)
> > >   
> > >   From: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf
> > > [2009/09/04 12:26:19,  0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(44)
> > >   ===============================================================
> > > [2009/09/04 12:26:19,  0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1673)
> > >   PANIC (pid 52669): internal error
> > > [2009/09/04 12:26:19,  0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1777)
> > >   BACKTRACE: 15 stack frames:
> > >    #0 0x2b43c5 <smb_panic+133> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #1 0x29d27a <dump_core_setup+1594> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #2 0xbfbfffb4
> > >    #3 0x20a4012f <__nss_wins_freebsd_gethostbyname_r+47> at
> > > /usr/local/lib/nss_wins.so.1
> > >    #4 0x207d28d4 <nsdispatch+452> at /lib/libc.so.7
> > >    #5 0x207d2230 <gethostbyaddr_r+240> at /lib/libc.so.7
> > >    #6 0x207d235f <gethostbyaddr+95> at /lib/libc.so.7
> > >    #7 0x207b51f6 <getipnodebyaddr+150> at /lib/libc.so.7
> > >    #8 0x207b3647 <getnameinfo+1191> at /lib/libc.so.7
> > >    #9 0x29f992 <sys_getnameinfo+98> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #10 0x2b92c9 <get_peer_name+345> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #11 0x2a4c76 <check_access+358> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #12 0xdde58 <smbd_process+72> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #13 0x4feb94 <main+8692> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> > >    #14 0x64949 <_start+137> at /usr/local/sbin/smbd
> 
> This looks like a problem with the interface
> between the nss wins plugin library on FreeBSD.
> 
> Remove "wins" from the "hosts:" line in your
> nsswitch.conf.
> 
> Jeremy.
> 

That did it. Removing 'wins' from the host: line allowed OS X clients to
connect.

Is this unique to FreeBSD or to Samba in general? Or even OS X clients?

What am I going to do for browsing while we operate in NT domain model until
we upgrade to AD?

~Doug