samba - Jan 2000 - "failed to set gid" PANIC w/ Samba 2.0.6 on Linux

Hello,

I've upgraded a Linux box from Debian 2.0 to Debian 2.2 (potato),
before the upgrade I had Samba 1.9.18 which worked without
any problem.

Upgrading to Samba 2.0.6 (debian version), now every connection fails
with this error:

[2000/01/31 12:07:36, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(72)
  Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,65534) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0)
[2000/01/31 12:07:36, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456)
  PANIC: failed to set gid

The System is a PII 300 Mhz, Kernel 2.0.34, libc6 2.1.2.

I've verifyed my /etc/passwd and /etc/group and I didn't found any
errors, so now I've no other clue for addressing the problem.

BTW, I'm using "encrypt passwords = no", so the
/etc/samba/smbpasswd
file should'n be an issue.

If you need I can post the output of 'testparm'.

Regards from Italy.
Luca

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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:55:53 +1100, hai scritto:
>Upgrading to Samba 2.0.6 (debian version), now every connection fails
>with this error:
>[2000/01/31 12:07:36, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(72)
>  Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,65534) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0)
>[2000/01/31 12:07:36, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456)
>  PANIC: failed to set gid
>The System is a PII 300 Mhz, Kernel 2.0.34, libc6 2.1.2.
2 things:
1) check thet the guest account is set to an uid > 0
2) if you use a precompiled 2.0.x samba (probably compiled on a 2.2.x
kernel) on a 2.0.x kernel then you have the above problem; you need to
recompile samba 2.0.x on your system (samba 2.0.x compiled on kernel
2.2.x uses some calls that are not implemented in kernel 2.0.x)

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