Greetings,
I have an elderly installation of Samba 3.5.8 running on 10 Sparc
servers (and 3.5.12 on Solaris 9 servers with the same issue) set up as
Active Directory member servers. Since we've laid-off everyone else
around here I have not had the opportunity to update the Samba
installation - and have not needed to as it has been very solid.
Suddenly last Friday the Samba servers started having authentication
problems for the active directory users. Users were unable to map
drives, looking at files on the server I was seeing UID numbers rather
that the user's login ID for the files. Stopping and restarting Samba
did not help.
I took the machines out of Active Directory, and then re-added them -
which they did without a problem. After restarting Samba all was well,
for awhile.
This morning some folks that had left themselves looked in over the
weekend were okay, but others could not map their drives. interactive
logins for AD users did not work. I again left and rejoined the AD
domain and all was well for a bit, then I had to repeat the cycle.
I do not maintain or have access to the Active Directory servers or
configuration. The central IT people claim that they have not made any
changes to the AD servers...but they don't always tell me the whole truth.
I am building Samba 3.5.18 right now in the hope that it will make a
difference.
I've never had a problem like this since first "playing" with Samba and
Active directory more than 5 years ago - and certainly no issue like
this since putting it into production.
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Robert M. Martel I met someone who looks a lot like you
System Administrator She does the things you do
Levin College of Urban Affairs But she is an IBM
Cleveland State University -Jeff Lynne
(216) 687-2214
r.mar...@csuohio.edu
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