We currently have Samba installed on a Solaris 8 server. It is serving several fileshares. Within the last couple of months we have had an issue with connecting to the share from the XP desktops. On the same share it will work fine for a while and then all of a sudden when you try to mount the share it will ask for an ID and password (it normally does not). If you try again a few seconds later it will mount fine without the ID and password. It is not password protected. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Brian M. Miley UNIX Administrator NCAA Technical Services Ph: (317) 917-6709 Fax: (317) 917-6888
We currently have Samba installed on a Solaris 8 server. It is serving
several fileshares. Within the last couple of months we have had an
issue with connecting to the share from the XP desktops. On the same
share it will work fine for a while and then all of a sudden when you
try to mount the share it will ask for an ID and password (it normally
does not). If you try again a few seconds later it will mount fine
without the ID and password. It is not password protected. Does anyone
have any idea what the problem could be?
In further investigation I find that when you CAN'T get in, this error
is recorded in the individuals log file.
[2004/11/03 16:23:49, 0]
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367)
unable to open passdb database.
Brian M. Miley
UNIX Administrator
NCAA
Technical Services
Ph: (317) 917-6709
Fax: (317) 917-6888
There is a smbpasswd file in /usr/local/samba/samba-2.2.3a/source/bin. However, I don't know that it is being used. I have never "set up" any new user and it had worked perfectly for a couple of years. Also, I don't know how to look at the smbpasswd file. If I cat the file it is encrypted. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry@samba.org] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:17 AM To: Miley, Brian Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Issue -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Miley, Brian wrote: | [2004/11/03 16:23:49, 0] | passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) | | unable to open passdb database. Are you using an smbpasswd file ? We had some reports of this and fixed one bug related to it for the upcoming 3.0.8 release. cheers, jerry - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song"--Switchfoot (2003) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBjwE3IR7qMdg1EfYRArMSAKCAOv/qKtlj2mhhbeRRuvDMfUapWQCgha3L UXssqAEBjasNy4NHLkgW0B0=txIx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----