Trying to access samba share from Windows and fails with the error : ¨ No process is on the other end of the pipe ¨
Issue
Trying to access samba share from Windows and fails with the following error on windows :
No process is on the other end of the pipe
Following errors are also seen in samba logs.
[2013/05/22 01:, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine Host.example.com pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0xc00creturned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
[2013/05/22 01:, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine Host.example.com pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0xc00creturned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
[2013/05/22 01:18:54, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(540)
read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 10.161.8.62. Error = Connection reset by peer
This only happens on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server clients.
Windows XP ans Windows 2003 server clients are able to access the share without any issues.
Environment
- Server 2008 R2 Active Directory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- system-config-samba-1.2.39-1.el5
- samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4
- samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4
- samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4
Windows clients having trouble accessing samba shares :
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows 7
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