Samba trouble

[Alex Dean]

On Oct 1, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> 'apt-get remove' leaves config files, as you found.  If you want
> to remove config files as well, do 'apt-get --purge remove'.  Of
> course, that no longer works after you have done 'apt-get remove'.
>
> So to clear everything out, you can do:
>     apt-get install samba
>     apt-get --purge remove samba
>
> It is also safe to just manually delete the files.
>
> -Dale

Thanks.  I was able to remove everything and reinstall.  I think it  
worked.  I can use swat to configure everything, and I can connect to  
the server using smbclient.

I still have a problem.  I have two Macs on this network (OS X  
10.4).  Clicking 'Network' in the Finder shows the server.  Clicking  
'Connect', which usually shows the list of available shares and  
mounts the one selected, crashes the Finder every single time.  I  
think this must be something wrong with the Finder, since I'm now  
getting the same errors when trying to connect to another Samba  
server which I used to use with no issues at all.  (I recently  
upgraded from 10.3 to 10.4, so I'm now thinking that's the issue.)

Here's a snippet of /var/log/samba/log.alex.  (The client machine  
trying to connect is 'alex').
[2005/10/01 14:42:59, 0] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_mem_get(537)
   prs_mem_get: reading data of size 2 would overrun buffer.
[2005/10/01 14:42:59, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_pipe_bind_req(919)
   api_pipe_bind_req: unable to unmarshall RPC_HDR_RB struct.
[2005/10/01 14:46:42, 0] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_mem_get(537)
   prs_mem_get: reading data of size 2 would overrun buffer.
[2005/10/01 14:46:42, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_pipe_bind_req(919)
   api_pipe_bind_req: unable to unmarshall RPC_HDR_RB struct.
[2005/10/01 15:18:36, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642)
   alex (192.168.0.102) connect to service tmp initially as user alex  
(uid=1000,
gid=1000) (pid 30907)
[2005/10/01 15:19:16, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(830)
   alex (192.168.0.102) closed connection to service tmp

That last entry is a successful connection using 'smbclient' from the  
command line.  The rest of the failure messages seem to be the  
Finder's fault.  There's a lot more of this, but it seems to be the  
same messages over and over.  I don't know what to make of this...   
Look familiar to anyone?

thanks,
alex