Reposting for the third time... Please let me know if there is more or different information needed, or where I might look to debug this further myself.
Thanks, Andy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:37:43 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: samba not using nscd I've got samba installed on several different machines in my environment, but samba on the linux machines doesn't seem to use nscd all the time. On my RedHat 7.1 machine running samba 2.2.7, it uses nscd for name lookups initially, then decides to bypass nscd and lookup names directly. I have strace output showing this, if someone would like to look at it. This also happens on a Debian stable machine running samba 2.2.3a-12. On my Solaris 8 machine running samba 2.2.7a, it correctly uses nscd for all lookups. You ask, why do I care? I care because I am using nss_ldap on all of these machines. When it bypasses nscd, I get another connection to the ldap server for every smbd process, which I'd like to avoid. Could this be related to the user-switching between root and the connected user that happens in samba? The first time the smbd process stops using nscd shows the following in the strace file: fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=592, len=1}, 0xbfffdca0) = 0 stat64("/users/u2/b/bishopc", 0xbfffe1e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) geteuid32() = 0 getegid32() = 0 getgroups32(0, []) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 getegid32() = 0 setgroups32(0, []) = 0 setresgid32(rgid 4294967295, egid 0, sgid 4294967295) = 0 getegid32() = 0 setresuid32(ruid 4294967295, euid 0, suid 4294967295) = 0 geteuid32() = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 19 at which point it starts loading the libnss_* libraries, etc, rather than using the nscd socket which it has previously used. If there is more information needed to track this down, just let me know what to provide... Thanks, Andy Morgan Central Computing Oregon State University