ClearFoundation

Hi,

I upgraded to 5.2 at the weekend and since then I have noticed the following in /ver/log/messages:

I'm getting these (as it implies) every 60 seconds. My weekly log file is already 5 times greater than a week's old log file. Is there any reason for this or anything I can do?

Samba is set up for simple file sharing on a home workgroup (and also via a VPN using remote-announce)

Nick

Hi Nick,

Have you integrated WINS authentication on your ClearOS system?

If you mean is WINS Support enabled, yes it is. If you don't mean that, can you please elaborate?

Hi Nick,

You can store username/password information in a bunch of different places. In the old days, ClarkConnect used the standard /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, etc files. As you know, ClearOS uses LDAP for username/password information these days. There's a module on the system called nss_ldap that manages this LDAP username/password magic. For example, if you run:

ls -al /home

The username and group information that you see is coming from LDAP via the nss_ldap provider.

You can also store username/password information in the Windows/Samba world too (e.g. a remote Windows Server). The nss_wins provider handles but it is not enabled on ClearOS.

Hi Peter,

I think I follow. I don't think I have done anything to allow connection to a remote windows server. I've turned off "remote anounce" and "remote browser sync" as they did not appear to achieve anything anyway, but it makes no difference.

Is there anything I can check?

Nick

Have you made any changes to the web proxy (NTLM authentication)? Windows, WINS and Samba are out of my league. I know enough to be dangerous, but I don't know nearly enough to be helpful beyond the basics.

I did make some changes to the Win7 registry try to get round an automatic login issue when the PC started, but I reversed the changes when they did nothing. The registry changes I tried were done about a month ago and were along the lines of disabling NTLMv2 authentication. This change to the log file only happened when I upgraded ClearOS. a week ago. The log file finished 10x bigger than it used to!

I've compared my smb.conf with the one I have on a VM which is pretty much a clean installation which started as CC5.0. My production box started as CC4.3. The files are much the same apart from the VM one points to the production one as the WINS server and the following lines in the production box:

/etc/samba/smb.nick.conf just contains 3 share definitions.

I don't think there is anything relevant in the above and the VM smb.conf has never been hand edited, so I don't see any obvious configuration problem.

I think the Win7 thing of mine is a red herring as I get the messages in the log 24/7, even when the Win7 box is off.

I am puzzled!

I've found the solution - restart fetchmail! I found another bug report here. My solution may not be permanent but I do not plan to restart the server any time soon.