I'd very much appreciate some help with a rather major problem I'm having. I have a Dell 6450 quad Xeon Processor machine with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of disk (RAIDed with an Adaptec 5400S RAID controller). It is running samba (2.2.8) to server up files to around 2300 Windows 2000 machines. The machine was originally installed and configured around September 2002. It had been running fine for a number of months until we setup Folder Redirection in user's Win2000 remote profiles (we directed all of the folders in their profile (desktop, nethood, etc.) to folders on the samba server).
As soon as this change was propagated throughout our network the samba server began to crash regularly. At first it appeared to be a problem with passthru authentication to the Domain Controller (with security = domain). After a large amount of authentication requests in a short period of time the domain controller started to send corrupted responses. We fixed this problem by switching to a local smbpasswd file. The server ran without error for around a week. We have again started to experience daily crashes, and I am unable to find the cause of the problem. It is the case, though, that all of the crashes are preceded by copius logging. The following is logged at least 25 times per second (sometimes for many hours) before the system crashes: Apr 4 07:57:32 zeus smbd[3328]: create_canon_ace_lists: unable to map SID S-1-5-21-713062547-131866000-281947949-4971 to uid or gid. Apr 4 07:57:32 zeus smbd[3328]: [2003/04/04 07:57:32, 0] smbd/posix_acls.c:create_canon_ace_lists(1018) Sometimes the system completely locks up and needs to be power cycled. Sometimes I am able to just restart smbd to fix the problem. Any insights anyone may have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ------------------ Ed Stoner Network Administrator Woodland Hills School District Pittsburgh, PA -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
