Samba PDC breaks after recent update

[James Clemence]

Binary package hint: samba

Since a recent update on Lucid I keep getting netlogon_creds_server_check failed for all my Windows 7 hosts. Rejecting auth request errors for my machine accounts to connect, and my domain no longer works. This was working entirely fine before with roaming profiles for the users in the domain.

Everything seems to be in order, no settings have changed, so why has this breakage happened?

$ apt-cache policy samba
samba:
  Installed: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
  Candidate: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

Any more information you need, please ask.

J

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Could you attach logs showing the error you get, and your smb.conf file ?

[Mark Weaver (blushingpenguin)]

I'm not the original reporter, but I get the same error message after an upgrade from 9.04 -> 10.04.1. I also get this for Windows XP machines.

[Mark Weaver (blushingpenguin)]

log level=10 for a failing XP domain member

[Mark Weaver (blushingpenguin)]

I've now fixed my issue, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't caused by the upgrade. I think this was caused by the fact that I'd used self-compiled samba packages using samba.org sources (the bump was to fix Win7 issues). It appears that samba.org uses files out of /etc/samba, but the ubuntu packaged version looks in /var/lib/samba; these would have existed from the previous install and so contained out of date information. The fix was simply to move the files from /etc/samba to /var/lib/samba so my issue isn't the same as reported above -- sorry for the noise.

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