DDCResolveName() failed Error: -610 when starting CIFS

  • 7016600
  • 12-Jun-2015
  • 12-Jun-2015

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 2

Situation

CIFS fails to start, the status shows 'unused' after running: rcnovell-cifs status

Messages in: /var/log/cifs/cifs.log
CIFS[23030]: ERROR: ENTRY: DDCResolveName() failed Error: -610
CIFS[23030]: ERROR: ENTRY: CIFSNDSResolveName failed with error = -610
CIFS[23030]: ERROR: ENTRY: Schema not extended. Errorcode  =  -610


An error is seen when trying to reconfigure CIFS with: yast2 novell-cifs

The proxy logs: /var/opt/novell/log/proxymgmt/pxymgmt.log
Shows this error: [cifs-config.sh]: Treename is empty

Resolution

The tree name was missing in the ndsd configuration.
This can be seen by running:

ndsstat
or
ndsconfig get n4u.base.tree-name

Configure the tree name by running:
ndsconfig set "n4u.base.tree-name = YOUR_TREE_NAME"