[Samba] nightmare scenario

[Rowland Penny]

On 12/02/15 20:46, Chuck Theobald wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to test an upgrade to the operating system on my file 
> server. I am going from RHEL 5 32-bit to Debian 7.8 64-bit. Samba is 
> also being moved from 3.0.33 to 3.6.6. My initial attempt on an 
> existing Debian 7.8 machine seems to work fine. I am able to smbclient 
> with an LDAP user and see the shares.
>
> A fresh install of Debian on another test machine is where the 
> nightmare comes in. To all appearances, the configuration is the same, 
> yet I cannot connect. smbclient with -d 10 ends with:
>
>                1: NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_128
>                1: NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_KEY_EXCH
>                0: NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_56
> NTLMSSP Sign/Seal - Initialising with flags:
> Got NTLMSSP neg_flags=0x60088215
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_UNICODE
>   NTLMSSP_REQUEST_TARGET
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_SIGN
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_NTLM
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_ALWAYS_SIGN
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_NTLM2
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_128
>   NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_KEY_EXCH
> SPNEGO login failed: Undetermined error
> lang_tdb_init: /usr/share/samba/en_US.UTF-8.msg: No such file or 
> directory
> session setup failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
> root at barbera:~#
>
> I need help with this badly and am under a deadline.
>
> Also, smbd takes several minutes to start up. /var/log/daemon.log 
> contains entries like:
>
> Feb 12 12:02:29 barbera smbd[11362]:   User root with invalid SID 
> S-1-5-21-1042143103-661323779-3120674006-1000 in passdb
> Feb 12 12:40:40 barbera smbd[11868]:   User root with invalid SID 
> S-1-5-21-1042143103-661323779-3120674006-1000 in passdb
>
> Thanks,
>

Well, you could post your smb.conf, tell us what you are using for auth, 
etc, etc, otherwise we will have to get out the crystal ball or try 
telepathy :-)

Rowland