samba - Nov 2003 - Failure to Change Machine Account Password

Hi all,

I've searched on this on marc.theaimsgroup.com, and was unable to find
anything conclusive. I am getting the following error message on the Windows
2000 workstations here (the only kind I have, hehe), and am wondering why.

Changing machine account password for account DHCP-12$ failed with the
following error:
The stub received bad data.

One, why is Windows 2000 trying to change the machine account password, and
why is it failing? I have setup Samba so that users can change their
passwords from Windows (and yes, it works, syncing passwords with both UNIX
and the smbpasswd databases). If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear
them. BTW, Samba 3.0 on Red Hat 7.3, Windows 2000 SP4 client.

-Sean Elble

() On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:07:55PM -0400, Sean Elble wrote:
() > Changing machine account password for account DHCP-12$ failed with the
() > following error:
() > The stub received bad data.
() 
() Can you send in a debug level 10 log and ethereal capture trace of
() this happening please ?
() 
() Jeremy.

For whatever it's worth, I never had these messages whith Samba
2.x, they appeared with Samba 3.0, and seem to have disappeared
again when I put the Netbios names of the Samba file server and
of the Samba domain controller (we have them listen on different
IPs) into the local /etc/hosts file.  Having the hostnames in
the DNS apparently is not enough, maybe because Netbios resolves
the IP to FOO and DNS to foo.dom.ain.

    Ciao, Lobo

() () > Changing machine account password for account DHCP-12$ failed with
the
() () > following error:
() () > The stub received bad data.
() 
() messages disappeared
() again when I put the Netbios names of the Samba file server and
() of the Samba domain controller (we have them listen on different
() IPs) into the local /etc/hosts file.

Forget it, the messages are suppressed only for a few hours
after restarting Samba.  The timestamps in smbpasswd get updated
(which made me think I found a solution) but not the passwords
themselves (duh).

Sorry for the noise.

    Ciao, Lobo