[Samba] Permission denied to reply to ping_message

Alex Korobkin korobkin+smb at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 17:02:26 UTC 2016


Hi all,

I use this command on my servers to test locally that Samba is alive and
well:

smbcontrol smbd ping

However, it suddenly stop working on one of the several identical servers,
and I cannot figure out why. ping command says "no replies received", while
log.smbd says that it received a ping message, but cannot reply because
permission is denied. Which permission?

$ sudo /usr/bin/smbcontrol -d 3 smbd ping
<...>
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Registered MSG_REQ_POOL_USAGE
Registered MSG_REQ_DMALLOC_MARK and LOG_CHANGED
fcntl_lock: fcntl lock gave errno 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
fcntl_lock: lock failed at offset 0 count 1 op 6 type 0 (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
No replies received

log.smbd:
<...>
[2016/03/31 10:00:27.153110,  1] ../source3/lib/messages.c:81(ping_message)
  INFO: Received PING message from PID 30727 []
[2016/03/31 10:00:27.153252,  2]
../source3/lib/messages_local.c:378(message_notify)
  message to process 30727 failed - Permission denied

System is Ubuntu 14.04 x64, Samba 4.1.22.
This is all done by root, apparmor is enabled but doesn't indicate any
denied operations.
-- 
-Alex


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