On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:02, Collins, Kevin wrote: > > Hi, > > HEY! I may not going to be able to help, but I want to chime in here and > let you know that you're not alone. :( I know, I've seen this on other servers as well.
> Maybe with both your information and mine, something will pop-out in the > Coder's mind or someone else who has been having the same issue. Maybe :-) This is from eventid.net: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=3224&source=netlogon It points us to this Knowledgebase article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259736#appliesto If you got time, can you test the solution described there tomorrow (or today depending on when you read this)? PS: To the sambaproject: How about creating a WIKI for this kind of info hosted on samba.org? Tarjei > > I got a problem using Samba 3.0.2a w Openldap as > > passwordstore. When my machines tries to reset their > > machinepasswords, they report the following error: > > > > Eventid: 3224 : stub contained bad data while trying to > > change the machine password. > > (please relate to the eventid as the text has been partly > > translated from norwegian) > > > > What I am wondering about is the following: > > a) Has anyone else experienced errors like this one on ther > > network and found a solution? > > While looking through my logs this morning, I came across this exact same > error in at least two of my machines (I'm trolling through the others now). > The two machines in question have been reporting this error message every 4 > hours (approx.) since the first week of the month. > > > b) The computer seems to work for now, > > Both of the machines are working fine (at the moment). > > > but I wonder ho long it will go on without beeing able to > > change it's machinepassword. > > Well, mine have been like this for nearly a month now. Not saying they > won't die today, but at least they have that long. > > > c) Is it possible to have the machine log when it has > > successfully changed the password as well? > > I think this is an automated process that neither an admin nor Samba can > control. > > FYI, my setup is like this: > > Samba 3.0.2 PDC with LDAP password backend. > Workstations are 99% Windows 2000 Pro w/SP4 (I do have one Windows 98SE box > and 2 Windows XP Pro w/SP1 machines floating around). > > One of the machines in question is running Windows 2000, the other (mine) is > running Windows XP. > > What kind of information would the Devel. Team need to solve this? Since it > seems to happen about every 4 hours I could run a level 10 log for my > machine and try to capture it. Would that help? > > -- > Kevin L. Collins, MCSE > Systems Manager > Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba