Problem after migrating samba domain PDC from RHEL3 to RHEL4

[Zhi-Wei Lu]

I think that I found the problem.

If I turn off "wins proxy = yes" , nmbd stays up
if I turn on "wins proxy =yes" , nmbd stop working within
a minute.

I will report this bug to Redhat.

On Jul 31, 2006, at 9:40 PM, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently migrated  my samba PDC from RHEL 3/i386 to a new  
> server
> with RHEL 4/x86_64.  Sadly, after the upgrade, my samba server  
> failed to work
> properly, nmbd stop to answer even though the damon stays on most  
> of the time,
> it did died a few times during my debug sessions.  I am using  
> simple smbpasswd
> passdb backend.
>
> I see such a line in my nmbd log file.
>
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast):  
> 0x000000552ad03fd0 ***
> after that nmbd stop working even though it is still in the process  
> table.
>
> The smbd seems to be okay, as it authenticate Windows users on my  
> domain,
> but, I just could not connect to other samba file server as the  
> nmbd on PDC
> dies after a few minutes. The other samba member servers could not  
> talk to
> the PDC,
> "net rpc join" will fail most of the time (works only when nmbd on  
> PDC is alive briefly)
> "net rpc join -S PDC"  always workson .
>
> During the migration, I simple moved /etc/samba directory from the  
> old machine,
> did I make some major errors by simply doing that?  Anyway, I will  
> appreciate to
> hear some words of wisdom.  Thank you.
>
>
> Zhi-Wei Lu
> Institue for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)
> UC Davis                     Phone:    (530) 752-0494
> Davis, CA 95616        Fax:         (530) 752-8894
>
>
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Zhi-Wei Lu
Institue for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)
UC Davis                     Phone:    (530) 752-0494
Davis, CA 95616        Fax:         (530) 752-8894