[ILUG] Samba failure

[Ruairi Hickey]

On Monday 17 December 2012 10:52:22 lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>  I'm completely stumped.
> 
>  I have moved samba services from a RHEL3 machine to a CentOS6 machine.
>  I'm using the exact same samba version on both (3.4.17, i.e. not whatever
>  came with either system), with the exact same configuration, and it's no
>  longer working. The new server has the same hostname and IP as the old one,
> and I have transfered the machine accounts (/etc/passwd and shadow).
> 
>  I can login to the domain fine
> 
> [2012/12/17 10:31:14,  1] smbd/service.c:1063(make_connection_snum)
>   host-46d10a3 (157.95.24.86) connect to service USER initially as user USER
> (uid=12345, gid=1001) (pid 13172)
> 
>  and the Linux homedir mounts fine as network drive, but get dozens and
> dozens of those:
> 
> [2012/12/17 10:31:23,  1] smbd/service.c:676(make_connection_snum)
>   create_connection_server_info failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
>  Everything is very slow, and e.g. profile updates are not saved. Other
>  users get "disk full" errors from Windows. I've also seen
> 
>   _netr_ServerAuthenticate3: netlogon_creds_server_check failed. Rejecting
> auth request from client host-E66A76E machine account host-E66A76E$
> 
>  Any ideas here?


A bit of a wild guess - did you clear the wins cache on the new server  - it 
persists over reboots etc and if  you tested the replacement server on a  
different subnet it may be getting confused ...

Ruairi