SV: [ILUG] Samba/PDC problem

[Peter Kjeldsen]

Try connecting to samba on the linux box using SWAT and your browser www."IP
address-linuxbox":901.

OR go to the linux box and type samba stop

OR disconnect all machines from the network (you can do this at the hub)
reconnect them one by one while you after each reconnect try to log on to
the network
When you cannot log on you know the last machine created the problem
Keep it disconnected until you have stopped samba at the machine and fixed
samba.conf

In the meantime everyone else can work away...

Kind regards
Peter

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Tor Bendiksen [mailto:tor at redbrick.dcu.ie]
Sendt: 25. maj 2001 13:20
Til: ilug at linux.ie
Emne: [ILUG] Samba/PDC problem


Hi there good people.

I have a problem here, and I can't hink of a solution for it.

We have a segment with about 50 "powerusers" that each have their own little
test setup.
Now the problem is that now and again some gimp decides to try out those
nice settings in smb.conf.. What happens next is that
they will manage to make their box take over as domain admin, and our
PDC/BDC (NT urgh!) will be knocked out. Then no one can
log in as the samba box isn't at all set up as a domain controller, but
rather a MP3 server for one user.

What I was looking for is some way of monitoring this with Linux (as I don't
really like NT, and I don't like to sit in the
server room staring at NT logs waiting for someone to do this.).

I want to monitor this segment, and if this happens then do sometihng about
it (at the very least just mail me the ip address,
and I can kick the muppet myself.)

AFAIK samba can't do this, but if someone has any idea on how to get
something like this done, please let me know.
Bear in mind that we have no SNMP, and are running with static ip's.

Regards,
-Tor