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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
