[ILUG] Strange Samba problem

[Domenico Gentile]

Hi to all you guru's in Linux Land.... 

I'm having a problem with a Samba box which has given fateful service for
years now (403 days uptime and that was because of a planned shutdown of all
systems at the time).

Anyway, since last Friday I've noticed that only users who were previously
connected to the system (via samba shares) are still able to access files.
Any user who has rebooted his (Windows) workstation, can no longer access
any of the samba shares and gets a message 'there are no logon servers
available to service the logon request'. Other Window file servers are not
affected by this problem.

The Samba server is authenticating against an NT PDC and by using 'net rpc
join -U Administrator' at the console prompt, it will resolve this problem
(i.e. users are able to connect to the shares) for about 30 mins at which
time the problem reoccurs.

*	I've tried restarting the samba daemons - no change
*	'wbinfo' show the correct info about domain users & groups
*	'net status' shows the connected users as expected
*	Nothing has changed on the samba box however I've recently installed
a new AV package on the PDC (and BDC) and have had to reboot them
*	The winbindd.log shows 'domain controller not found' errors which is
not a good sign

I haven't rebooted the system yet as I don't feel it would help. Am I wrong?

Any ideas?

It's Fedora Core 1 box running samba 3.04

Dom Gentile



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