[dragonmac]

Anyone else have a Highpoint Rocket SATA2 RAID card? Best I was able to figure out is it was a bad drive in the RAID. Removing the one bad (Seagate 158.7GB ) Drive stopped the error and the server “hiccup” that was causing the corrupt file saves has stopped. I tried to put a different model drive in which is rated at about 161GB Maxtor and did a rebuild and the problem popped up again. I did recently do an update to the RAID card drivers but over a month ago and all has been fine till recently.

Any help would be appreciated.
😯

[dragonmac]

Well unfortunately I have to wait on Apple to fix my Mac Pro problem (see post above). Still no Link Aggregation and no one can figure out a workaround but it might be hardware so. Apple is aware of the problem.

[dragonmac]

Norsoft, you on a compleatly private network as to not expect any intruder activity?

Since the problem first appeared it has not happened again but I do not leave SMB running. I only need it a few times a week for some transfers of data from the PC’s to the Mac side. I only enable the service when needed and shut it down. All was fine after a reboot and removal of Log file and restore of cyrus. The LDAP was messed up but as I said in the previous post i had to go to backup which I had a shinny 1 week old Archive made with Sys Admin/OD/Archive 😀 (so much nicer then the backup scripts for LDAP in 10.3)
Since norsoft is PPC I guess this is not an Intel bin gone bad but I’m surprised then that I’m not seeing more of this with 10.4.8 admins. 😕
I was planing to write a auto restart for smaba or a job of some sort to just turn it on for the two, 1/2 days a week i need it.

[dragonmac]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304120

There where a few people on the Apple Forums that have Pro curves and what was need to set it up.

also here s a link here that may explain it better.

https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060724001126511

Just so you know there are other articles posted in the support site for Apple about Link Aggregation. Apple does not support “Static” or “Trunk” setups as far as I’ve read in my research. Only LACP dynamic is supported I believe. You should realy search the Apple Forums cause I know I saw people taking about HP Procurve setups with this. Hope this help you pingu. 😉

[dragonmac]

Ok Problem is for the most part confirmed. Any Guru’s out there that could help with this would be great. I basiclly need a way in CLI at this point to set the MAC address properly for my bond0. I’m gonna post 2 ifconfig -b bond0 reports. One is of a working Link the second is mine. Just notice the ether address on his and mine and the MAC addresses listed for en0 & en1. You should see the problem and hoppfully someone could help me.

TNSteve Posts: 2
Registered: Jul 30, 2006 Re: Link Aggregation, 10.4.8 Server, D-Link problems.
Posted: Dec 20, 2006 11:09 AM

Our Xserv is connected to a netgear gs748T. I do not have trunking enabled on the switch. en0 and en1 are aggregated to bond0 in network setup.

xserv1:~ admin$ sudo ifconfig -b bond0
bond0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::20d:93ff:fe9e:9a41%bond0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:0d:93:9e:9a:41
media: autoselect (1000baseT ) status: active
supported media: autoselect
bond key: 0x0001 interfaces: en0 (selected) en1 (selected)
bond interface: en0 priority: 0x8000 state: 0x3d partner system: 0x8000,00:0d:93:9e:9a:41 key: 0x0001 port: 0x0005 priority: 0x8000 state: 0x3d
bond interface: en1 priority: 0x8000 state: 0x3d partner system: 0x8000,00:0d:93:9e:9a:41 key: 0x0001 port: 0x0004 priority: 0x8000 state: 0x3d

xserv1:~ admin$ sudo networksetup -listBonds
interface name: bond0
{
user-defined-name: Bond_NICS
devices: en0, en1
}

Here is an article that you might find of interest.
https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060724001126511

G5 PowerMac Xserv Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Michael O Posts: 20
From: NYC, USA
Registered: Jul 16, 2003
Re: Link Aggregation, 10.4.8 Server, D-Link problems.
Posted: Dec 20, 2006 1:14 PM in response to: TNSteve

Thank You so much steve because you have confirmed my problem. It is the MAC address setup on the Mac Pro via network setup. Here is my ifconfig.

osxserver:~ root# ifconfig -b bond0
bond0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::217:f2ff:fe00:1012%bond0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 192.30.40.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.30.40.255
ether 00:17:f2:00:10:12
media: autoselect (1000baseT ) status: active
supported media: autoselect
bond key: 0x0001 interfaces: en0 (selected) en1 (unselected)
bond interface: en0 priority: 0x8000 state: 0xbd partner system: 0x0001,00:0f:3d:f8:12:8f key: 0x0013 port: 0x0013 priority: 0x0001 state: 0x37
bond interface: en1 priority: 0x8000 state: 0x05 partner system: 0x0001,00:0f:3d:f8:12:8f key: 0x0013 port: 0x0014 priority: 0x0001 state: 0x37

See my “ether” address it DOES NOT match the Mac addresses assigned to the Bonded en0 & en1 as yours does. Apple does it again, sometimes I love them then hate them, lol.

osxserver:~ root# networksetup -listBonds
interface name: bond0
{
user-defined-name: bond0
devices: en0, en1
}

Please does anyone know what CLI commands will fix this?

Mac Pro 2 x 2.66Ghz intel 2006 Mac OS X (10.4.8) ATTO SCSI320 2CH, Highpoint 2322 SATA 2 RAID

[dragonmac]

👿
Ok Finally someone who has the same exact problem and has seen the light at the end of the tunnel. A couple of things I’d like to know if we have them in common. Is yours an Intel system with two built-in en-X’s? If not what hardware do you have? What OS 10.4.x,6,7, or 8?
As to my problem it is a brand new Mac Pro Intel running 10.4.8 Server now. I noticed the same thing with the MAC addresses. I heard from some PPC users that had some problems with Link Aggregation in 10.4.8 but where able to fix but it seems Intel users still can’t get it to work. Spoke to Apple who said it’s not really covered under Applecare but I argued since I installed a clean 10.4.7 Original DVD-OS on a separate partition and it still won’t work Plus it is part of the GUI now so it should be covered.
My behavior is identical to what you described en0 works fine both in or solo but en1 won’t work in Link Aggregation. I think it’s the MAC address too.
Anyone know how to spoof the MAC address the right way via CLI so we can try it and not have to wait on apple patch?

[dragonmac]

Well nothing in the Firewall logs showed anything bad. I have a minamal amout of info being tracked though.

Secure.log seem a bit wierd but it was a Sun to Mon time frame and there was no entry at all in the log for nov 13th.
here are the 2 entiers from the last sercue.log till i made it on site and rebooted and begain my trouble shooting the 14th 2:30pm.

Nov 12 22:47:21 osxserver com.apple.SecurityServer: Succeeded authorizing right system.burn by process /Applications/Retrospect 6.1/Retrospect for authorization created by /Applications/Retrospect 6.1/Retrospect.
Nov 14 02:33:53 localhost com.apple.SecurityServer: Entering service

Yeah the 85GB file I dumped, was in a rush to get all up and running so saving an 85 gb log file was not on my list. In the end I had to replace the cyrus DB from the backup at around 10pm Sunday and the service was turned off at 9:30AM , since the Pop3 and imapd would not let them get there mail. smtp was going fine it seemed. you can see the DB errors in the Log i posted at the end of it. all my repair tricks failed and I had to go to backup.

As far as SMB I always get entries like these when service is running.

[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(446)
write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(471)
write_socket: Error writing 114 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(663)
Error writing 114 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)
[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(446)
write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(471)
write_socket: Error writing 53 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(663)
Error writing 53 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)
[2006/11/13 04:03:04, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(446)
write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
…
…
[2006/11/13 04:25:02, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘ADMINISTRATOR’!
[2006/11/13 04:25:02, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(446)
write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2006/11/13 04:25:02, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(471)
write_socket: Error writing 39 bytes to socket 23: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[2006/11/13 04:25:02, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(663)
Error writing 39 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)
[2006/11/13 04:25:02, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘ADMINISTRATOR’!
[2006/11/13 04:25:02, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(446)
…
…
[2006/11/21 13:55:43, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwent(2295)
odssam_getsampwent: entriesAvailable Take 2(3) contextData(0x0)
[2006/11/21 13:55:43, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwent(2283)
odssam_getsampwent: entriesAvailable(3) contextData(0x0)
[2006/11/21 13:55:44, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘administrator’!
[2006/11/21 13:55:45, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘administrator’!
[2006/11/21 13:55:45, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘administrator’!
…
…
[2006/11/21 13:57:02, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘admin’!
[2006/11/21 13:57:03, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘admin’!
[2006/11/21 13:57:05, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘admin’!
[2006/11/21 13:57:06, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1016)
getpeername failed. Error was Socket is not connected
[2006/11/21 13:57:06, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(446)
write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2006/11/21 13:57:06, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(471)
write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 23: ERRNO = Broken pipe
[2006/11/21 13:57:06, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-100.4/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(663)
Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)
[2006/11/21 13:57:06, 0] pdb_ods.c:odssam_getsampwnam(2329)
odssam_getsampwnam: [0]get_sam_record_attributes dsRecTypeStandard:Users no account for ‘admin’!
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heres some slapd.log entries too not sure if it’s anything. I’m no unix guru but gettin better every day 😉

Nov 10 19:31:39 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_substring_candidates: (givenName) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 10 19:31:39 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_substring_candidates: (mail) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:23:57 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:23:57 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:25:27 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:25:53 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:26:37 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:35:27 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:35:29 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:35:53 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:35:54 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:36:37 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 12 14:36:38 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (apple-computers) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 14 02:33:53 localhost slapd[57]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.2.19 $n
Nov 14 02:33:53 localhost slapd[57]: bdb_back_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003)n
Nov 14 02:33:53 localhost slapd[57]: bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB databasen
Nov 14 02:33:54 localhost slapd[57]: slapd startingn
Nov 14 09:11:54 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_substring_candidates: (givenName) index_param failed (18)n
Nov 14 09:11:54 osxserver slapd[57]: <= bdb_substring_candidates: (mail) index_param failed (18)n

Still no real clue as to what happened but untill i reconfigue my PIX506 Cisco firewall SMB is off and on only when need which is only a few time a week.

[dragonmac]

File links you should see DAM SPAM filter won’t let me post the links the right way please look at these logs they are scary!!!
use “members” dot “aol” dot “com” as the FQDN
http://FQDN/dragonmacpc/systemlog0gz.txt
http://FQDN/dragonmacpc/systemlog.txt

[dragonmac]

Well I’ve been in this boat for some time and there has been no real fix as of yet. I hope to have 10.4.2 on all Servers and Clients soon and Mobile-Home Dir setup when Tiger server is up. I through money at the problem in different areas (new network switches, better HD’s, Outside Consultants) no dice everyone is stumped.
My bottom line is the Finder in 10.3.x< stinks in many cases on network volumes and AFP server in XServer Still needs work. Hopfully 10.4 Server will help.
If I didn’t love Apple I’d hate Mac’s… well at least the Server. ASIP6 worked great and I almost went back.

[dragonmac]

I’m about to jump into the same boat w/10.3.7 server & 10.4.2 clients
please post the results if Troll’s idea fixes this.
BTW What is that command doing to the 10.3.x Servers AFP settings?

[dragonmac]

Matt not a 10.3.5 Client problem the Problem is your clients MUST BE 10.3.5 for MCX to work with 10.3.5 Server. Took me many hours to figure out finally did 2 days ago. After my Server Update all my 10.3 clients list view logins broke. The only recipe to get the list view back is on Server MCX prefs for Computer List must be List ALL users (Local, Net, Local Admin, –Other can be on or off) and local users on in Access tab. This will fix the issue if you are waiting to update clients. 10.2 users seemed unaffected.
The reverse might be true here to users of MCX. If you update 10.3 client to 10.3.5 but leave server at 10.3.1-4 you may have problems with login window.

[dragonmac]

I like NHD and use them in a productions environment. I have a mix of OS X and 9 clients (MacMgr set on server) all using NHD. 25 clients + 6 PC’s not using NHD’s. Server is 10.3 dual 1.8ghz 2.5GB RAM and is connected to a Gigabit port on Switch all others users are 100BaseT.
I find the use of NHD far out-ways the down time issue. I have had this setup in ASIP with MacMgr, and now in X for 1.5 years, for 5 years and have had maybe 12 hours of real down time for users(thats on the high end of a guess). Good backups and regular maintenance on the Server keeps everyone happy.
As far as the Sync issue you can very easily setup login and logout Hooks to use “rsync” which is built in to X.2.+ clients and server. If you wanna get fancy add an iHook front end so users can see what rsync is doing. If they transfer large files it could take a 1 or 2 mins to login/out. Don’t want them to think they crashed.
You mentioned above Server is on only 100BaseT which is a real waste of an Xserve So I RECOMMEND a new switch. Prices for Gigabit are much more reasonable then when I bought mine. (2 port Giga, 24 port 10/100 GX4).
Also as far as your solution for redundancy, WARNING-Messing with Server IP’s or DNS settings CAN CAUSE MANY PROBLEMS!!! OD, LDAP, KDC, and many other services on the server CAN Break with IP/DNS changes!!! Not a good work around. But thats just my experience.
This ain’t ASIP folks

[dragonmac]

Well still no responce to my last reply. He is a busy guy so can someone else tell me what I can do to fix the “From Server” connection to LDAPv3 from client. There has to be a way that doesn’t mean a fresh install.

[dragonmac]

[QUOTE]I’m thinking that you might have a DNS issue or did when you set your master up.[/QUOTE]
Dam I could have used that cash, Thanx Josh for the info. One thing more if you could.
Funny you should mention the quote above. I did as a matter of fact have an issue after a clean install of 10.3 Server on a Mac G5. Ahh well beat me with a stick if you must but when I first setup and booted the unit my Ethernet plug was not in tight. OK not in at all, it was late. So yes when I started I had issues and had to redo my KDC setup from scratch but all appears fine now. OD seems ok too but your note concerns me. How can I fix the issue so the “From Server” works? My DNS info was right and is OK. Since the server was not on the Network at first startup what happened to OD and KDC?

[dragonmac]

Thanks for reply Tony.
I’m not a CLI wiz just yet so I’m still learning these util’s via CLI. If someone could post a FULL set of CLI’s to clean out the KDC would be much appreciated. Using “rm” wrong in the CLI can be a very bad thing, lol.
Is your Fifth note based on my edit of a System Error when AFP is set to login via KDC only and a X client? If so can I just delete this file from the same location on the client or is that the main edu.mit.Kerberos? Is there a second location on a client for the edu.mit.Kerberos file from the server?

As to your final remark the LDAP did not appear to replicate the Users into KDC. I used the Server Admin to Replicate now but I think this is only for Remote Open Directory servers.?. So even after a restart the KDC did not have any user entries (i.e. [email protected]) I had to go in and like I said change pass to Crypt, Save, back to Open Dir, and Save to get a proper “[email protected]” entries. If this is not right then why did they all not just get into KDC?

I would still like to get a post from you or Joel as to a straight CLI set of commands from Start to finish on rebuilding KDC from the ground up. I know my top entries are only a start so a CLI list of “rm” commands to kill the current KDC, the right setup commands like I have above and any stuff that needs to be done after my last command for OSX Server.
I’m sure someone may have done this already so just port the Web Page if you know one. It seems like this kind of a post would be useful to many new OS X Admins as well as new to KDC folks on OSX.

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