"Can't become connected user" error

[Daniel Hahler]

All off a sudden, I cannot connect to my samba server anymore. Neither from a Windows XP client, nor through KDE's "smb" kioslave.
The samba log shows:
"""
[2006/10/14 20:41:24, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(592)
  Can't become connected user!
[2006/10/14 20:41:26, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(592)
  Can't become connected user!
[2006/10/14 20:41:29, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(693)
  base (127.0.0.1) connect to service data initially as user X (uid=1000, gid=1000) (pid 18836)
"""

From a quick search it may be related to some kernel changes.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

Hi.

Can you check if the instructions here (http://www.gatago.com/linux/samba/23879720.html) solves your problem?

It was result of a quick google search.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Probably not and I would not know how to change it for the kioslave anyway.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

The problem seems to have been fixed a long time ago already.

[SirG (sirg-nj)]

I saw exactly the same symptom on my Karmic server during attempts to connect to the share from BackupPC. Failed on hourly attempts for 6 hours, then recovered and completed backups with no intervention.
Samba reported:
...
[2010/04/06 02:00:03, 0] smbd/service.c:929(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!
[2010/04/06 02:00:03, 0] smbd/service.c:929(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!
[2010/04/06 03:00:02, 0] smbd/service.c:929(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!
[2010/04/06 03:00:03, 0] smbd/service.c:929(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!
[2010/04/06 04:00:02, 0] smbd/service.c:929(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!
[2010/04/06 04:00:02, 0] smbd/service.c:929(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!
...

BackupPC reported:
2010-04-06 03:00:05 Got fatal error during xfer (tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE)
[same earlier/later]

No other messages on either the samba server or the backup server, that can correlate in time to this.

If there is a documented meaning to this message, please help identify it. If the message indicates an internal consistency issue, please advise on what additional diagnostic actions should be taken.

I see loads of people complaining about this message, but no answers or solutions...

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Can you see if you get this message in lucid?

Thanks
chuck

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[James Trier (jmstrier)]

Trying to join an XP machine to a new setup of samba on my Ubuntu host. Ubuntu is running on Lucid and I'm getting the same exact error message as listed above. It could likely be a configuration issue as this is my first stab at setting this up. I'm following these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/samba-dc.html

and I also found some reference to computer policy settings on the XP machine but those didn't help: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-July/123225.html

[dogstar1 (nick-dogstar1)]

Having the issue:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"

Linux myhost 2.6.35-26-server #46-Ubuntu SMP Sun Jan 30 08:29:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: doing parameter public = yes
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: doing parameter wins support = true
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: doing parameter allow hosts = 127. 10.10.10.
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: doing parameter dns proxy = no
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: doing parameter netbios name = myhost
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: [2011/02/04 21:43:59.332387, 0] smbd/server.c:1169(main)
Feb 4 21:43:59 myhost smbd[726]: standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
Feb 4 21:44:12 myhost smbd[734]: [2011/02/04 21:44:12.654132, 0] smbd/service.c:942(make_connection_snum)
Feb 4 21:44:12 myhost smbd[734]: Can't become connected user!
Feb 4 21:44:19 myhost smbd[735]: [2011/02/04 21:44:19.948215, 0] smbd/service.c:942(make_connection_snum)
Feb 4 21:44:19 myhost smbd[735]: Can't become connected user!
Feb 4 21:44:20 myhost smbd[736]: [2011/02/04 21:44:20.510614, 0] smbd/service.c:942(make_connection_snum)
Feb 4 21:44:20 myhost smbd[736]: Can't become connected user!