SMB daemon turned into maintenance mode after share publisher thread went into infinite loop of displaying GSS major/minor status when failed to establish security context with the ldap server (i.e. the domain controller).
1) Set the ad-container property on a CIFS share.
2) Remove /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab after the system has been successfully joined to a domain.
3) Restart the CIFS server for the share publisher to start procecessing the list of shares to be published.
syslog
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Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 305693 daemon.error] ads: major status error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
Oct 8 08:05:38 reallyreallylonghostname smbd[102408]: [ID 434683 daemon.error] ads: minor status error: No such file or directory
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This will happen everytime ads_open_main() fails. More specifically, this
will happen even when smb_ads_find_host, ldap_init, ldap_set_option methods fail.