Hi,
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:41:58 -0500 "Glenn Walker" ggwalker@mindspring.com wrote:
Enable the option (temporarily) 'cifs.trace_dc_connection'. The output (via screen\messages file) will help.
It may not be an issue with complete connectivity drop, but the DC is definitely rejecting the RPC request to look up group membership (SamrGetAliasMembership).
Apparently, there are some connectivity problems, but it seems they are quite random -- a trace of network traffic between the filer and the PDC reveals some unexpected TCP resets issued byt the DC :
[...] filer -> DC [FIN,ACK] DC->filer [ACK] DC->filer [RST,ACK] [...]
this shouldn't be a problem, since the filer requested a FIN anyway, but the time coincidence is troubling...
Enabling cifs.trace_dc_connection and cifs.trace_login yields some more information:
AUTH: notice- The context has expired. AUTH: notice- No error. AUTH: notice- Unexpected GSSAPI security context error. AUTH: notice- The context has expired. AUTH: notice- No error. CIFSRPC SamrGetAliasMembership: Exception rpc_s_unknown_reject caught. AUTH: Error looking up domain groups during login from 192.168.x.x:RPC_NT_CALL_FAILED (0xc002001b).
and ten seconds later: AUTH: TraceLDAPServer- Starting AD LDAP server address discovery for domain.tld AUTH: TraceLDAPServer- Found 2 AD LDAP server addresses using generic DNS query. AUTH: TraceLDAPServer- AD LDAP server address discovery for domain.tld complete. 2 unique addresses found. AUTH: notice- Unexpected GSSAPI security context error. [...]
This goes on for ten minutes, then the filer tries to locate a DC again, and then everything works fine again
AUTH: TraceDC- Starting DC address discovery for domain. AUTH: TraceDC- Filer is not a member of a site. AUTH: TraceDC- Found 2 addresses using generic DNS query. AUTH: TraceDC- Starting WINS queries. AUTH: TraceDC- Found 2 BDC addresses through WINS. AUTH: TraceDC- Found 1 PDC addresses through WINS. AUTH: TraceDC- DC address discovery for PC complete. 2 unique addresses found.
I'm not really sure of what *should* happen, but this definitely does *not* look good... I understand that a security context expires sometimes, but I wonder why it takes so long to re-negociate
Simon