UNCLASSIFIED Hi all,
Got an interesting one here. Every random period of time, our Solaris 10 samba server will stop serving new requests (to map a network drive). Existing connections still seem to work. At the same time, NETLOGON stops working as well, and login scripts on windows boxes fail at a random line when you login. The workaround at the moment is to restart the server service on the domain controller. This, I believe, will also restart the NETLOGON service, and all is well. What could be the cause? Some more information: Our samba server is now pointing to a specific domain controller. If I change the config to point to the other domain controller, the problem follows the samba config and that domain controller server service needs to be restarted. The random period of time is 1, 2, 6, 7, 30, 35, 60 or 62 days. Quite random. Other samba servers are not affected, they continue to work ok. Our usual samba config is to broadcast for a domain controller. The samba server is version 3.5.8, built from source, and the domain controllers are windows 2003. There is a project to upgrade them to 2008, but that is taking it's time. And we're not even sure that it will fix it. My guess: I think it's a rogue box out there, which is hitting the samba server quite hard, and the samba server is passing the info onto the DC. I've upped the logging on the samba server to 99, but it impacted performance, and so I've dropped it to 5. It hasn't revealed anything at all. Running snoop on the server is taking a lot of space, so I'm in the process of writing a script to try and limit it. If it is a rouge server, how could we find it? Thankx for any suggestions, Greg. IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
