hello, I hope someone can help me with this problem because it is really unique and odd... or at least it seems to me. I can't find any references anywhere as to anyone else having the same trouble. Here is the story: I have a machine running RH 7.1 and samba 2.2.3a as our PDC for the Network. This box also serves other purposes such as Name server, dhcp server, internal web server, and LDAP server to name a few. All of our users athenticate to the PDC via LDAP and not a local /etc/passwd file. That all works great. The problem: We also have another Samba server running RH 7.1 and Samba 2.2.3a and that is our database server. The database is on a share and can be seen and ran from client machines on the network. The samba server running the databases is set up to security = Server, and the Password server = PDC. That all seems to work fine, but only for 10-15 minute periods. I can fire up the database and have it function fine for that period of time and then all of a sudden it stops functioning and is dropped by samba. The database then returns with the message "disk or network error". This is not good. The wierd part: If I move the database off the database server and onto the PDC and run it off of their from a client, it funtions perfectly. That samba server doesn't drop the connection after 10 minutes. It works forever. Can this maybe be an LDAP and Samba problem??? If anyone can give me some insight as to why this may be happening I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time... Matt Lung
Don't have a clue but: Could you use NFS between your PDC and your database server and just have all smb interactions go through your PDC? You haven't ruled out a hardware error on your database server. Have you tried to take the PDC server off line, and just log onto the database server directly? Maybe there is some evil interaction between the two samba servers. BTW, if MS Access is working perfectly on the PDC, maybe that is good enuf. Joel On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:32:19AM -0500, Matt Lung wrote:> hello, > > I hope someone can help me with this problem because it is really unique > > and odd... or at least it seems to me. I can't find any references > anywhere as to anyone else having the same trouble. > > Here is the story: > > I have a machine running RH 7.1 and samba 2.2.3a as our PDC for the > Network. This box also serves other purposes such as Name server, dhcp > server, internal web server, and LDAP server to name a few. All of our > users athenticate to the PDC via LDAP and not a local /etc/passwd file. > That all works great. > > The problem: > > We also have another Samba server running RH 7.1 and Samba 2.2.3a and > that is our database server. The database is on a share and can be seen > > and ran from client machines on the network. The samba server running > the > databases is set up to security = Server, and the Password server = PDC. > > That all seems to work fine, but only for 10-15 minute periods. I can > fire up the database and have it function fine for that period of time > and then all of a sudden it stops functioning and is dropped by samba. > The database then returns with the message "disk or network error". > This is not good. > > The wierd part: > > If I move the database off the database server and onto the PDC and run > it off of their from a client, it funtions perfectly. That samba server > > doesn't drop the connection after 10 minutes. It works forever. > Can this maybe be an LDAP and Samba problem??? > > If anyone can give me some insight as to why this may be happening I > would really appreciate it. > > Thanks for your time... > > Matt Lung > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Matt Lung wrote:> > hello, > > I hope someone can help me with this problem because it is really unique > > and odd... or at least it seems to me. I can't find any references > anywhere as to anyone else having the same trouble. > > Here is the story: > > I have a machine running RH 7.1 and samba 2.2.3a as our PDC for the > Network. This box also serves other purposes such as Name server, dhcp > server, internal web server, and LDAP server to name a few. All of our > users athenticate to the PDC via LDAP and not a local /etc/passwd file. > That all works great. > > The problem: > > We also have another Samba server running RH 7.1 and Samba 2.2.3a and > that is our database server. The database is on a share and can be seen > > and ran from client machines on the network. The samba server running > the > databases is set up to security = Server, and the Password server = PDC.security=server has *bad idea* written all over it. I would highly recommend changing this to 'security = domain' (and joining the domain). The problem is that with 'security=server' we must maintain the connection to the PDC, if that is dropped (like becouse the connection was idle - I think out keepalive stuff might be broken too) the we can't authenticate again. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net