[TriLUG] Samba Question

[Mark Fowle]

I removed all the locks and upgraded to 2.2.7a and it seems to work
better now.  Thanks!

Mark

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 13:21, Roy Vestal wrote:
> One thing that I've run into is the samba locks that occur on the samba
> server.  shutdown the service (both smbd and nmbd) and check
> /var/opt/samba/locks. Usually when I have communication errors, removing the
> temporary locks seems to fix it. Once you've removed them, simply restart
> the services.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Fowle" <mark at thefowles.com>
> To: "trilug" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Samba Question
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 19:12, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > > What happens when you restart the service on the server (or just the
> > > nmdb)?
> > >
> > I don't see any error messages in the nmdb.log -- but even restarting
> > the nmdb doesn't seem to cure it.
> >
> > > I think this error has something to do with the "ultra secret security"
> > > number that is generated by a PDC for a domain and then shared with
> > > authenticated machines at the point when you authenticate them.  If the
> > > server can't access this "ultra secret security" number then it can't
> > > authenticate any other windows (samba) server to the domain, and it
> > > can't add a new server to the domain.
> > >
> > Is this the secrets.tdb ? Is there a way to regenerate this file or some
> > way to find out exactly whats missing without dumping everything and
> > starting over?
> >
> > > A domain has a SAM associated with it that authenticates each machine as
> > > being a member of the domain.  Each server on the domain has an
> > > individual SAM associated with it that authenticates that servers
> > > identity.
> > >
> > Should there also be a SAM account in the smbpasswd ?  I've never seen a
> > reference that says to....
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >
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