On 06/21/2010 02:43 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:39:09PM -0400, Hong K Phooey wrote: >> We have a service on our windows system that drops files onto a samba share >> every 10 minutes. This has worked fine, except after one week, the system >> will fail. We usually restart samba and winbind on the linux side, and then >> restart the service on the windows box to resolve the issue. >> >> This week we decieded to let it fail, and after an hour it seemed to allow >> connections to the samba share. Here is the log file of the failures: >> >> 172.19.6.60 (172.19.6.60) closed connection to service lorian >> [2010/06/21 09:40:03, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:342(reply_spnego_kerberos) >> Failed to verify incoming ticket with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE! >> >> This repeats every minute until 10:33 am, when the service was able to >> reconnect to the share. >> >> Is there a reason why this would fail every week at the same time? Do these >> settings have anything to do with the issue? >> >> Default: idmap cache time = 604800 (one week) >> Default: machine password timeout = 604800 >> >> For the machine password timeout, is it necessary for it to update this >> often. Can it be set to only attempt once per year, longer? > > You can stop it updating the machine password by setting > "machine password timeout = 0". > > This looks like an issue with the machine account > password being changed. > > Jeremy
What version of samba are you using? I believe that a machine password renewal bug was fixed in 3.5.3. - John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
