[chef] RE: RE: Remote file Copy from Windows Share

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Hi Adam,

  It’s windows to windows.  Only the Chef server is Linux but that has little to do with anything (I think/hope).

Without Chef involvement the shares are perfectly accessible, even using the user account that chef client is run as.

 

Firewall is off completely and I’m using AD creds and local creds.  When Chef run is performed against the two windows nodes, one will complete successfully (it is the node hosting the share) and the other node will fail with ‘authentication failed – password incorrect’ (which I think is a catch-all error).

The security log of the second node shows authentication error with a null sid.

  The first node (hosting the share) shows no errors.

  The security of the D:\installs folder also show effective permissions as full control for both ad login and local account.

 

I’m wondering if it’s something to do with the user that the chef client is run as on each node? Maybe machine localsystem?  Does chef-client run with the creds that winrm provides to it or do those creds simply auth against WinRM and then localsystem takes over?  Chef-Client is being run on-demand, it is not installed as a service due to the way we will be using Chef.

 

Thanks

Chris

 

From: Adam Edwards [mailto:
Sent: 06 August 2014 17:09
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Subject: [chef] RE: Remote file Copy from Windows Share

 

Christopher, to clarify a few things here:

 

1.       Are you copying from a windows machine to a windows machine? Or is one of the systems a Linux system

2.       You’re saying that even without any Chef / Ruby involved you can’t access the share?

 

If those things are true, I’d try the following:

1.       Turn off the firewall

2.       Try using credentials for a local account as well as a domain credentials

3.       Check the security log to see if you get an audit event for a failed logon

 

-Adam

 

From: "> [mailto: "> ]
Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 7:28 AM
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Subject: [chef] Remote file Copy from Windows Share

 

Hi Chefs

I’m having trouble again J

 

I’m trying to copy a file from a share on a windows server from a target node via chef. The purpose for it to copy dll drop files from a share and dumped into d:\installs so it can later be unzipped. At the moment I am having issues trying to connect to the share.

I’ve tried running the chef run as a local admin on the target node (which used to work), using AD creds and also a different local account to no avail.

The linux server was recently added to our domain, but this was failing before that happened.

I’ve tried a batch file mapping a drive then copy, a powershell script doing the same, native ruby and now this remote file resource. Same error everytime, it looks like a permissions error on Windows, but the file share is currently set full permission to everyone on both Share permissions and filesystem permissions.

I’m seeing NULL_SID event log entries where the auth fails, but this is on the target node, not the one that hosts the share.

 

Can any offer anything to look at?

 

Chef server is Ubuntu 14.04 using PBIS to auth via AD  (might I need Samba installing now AD is in use for Auth?)

Windows nodes are running Server 2008R2 patched up-to-date.  All are VM’s. All one the same AD and DNS domain.

 

“myserver

DEBUG: :relay_output_from_backend => ["ATLQ-CHEF04.airwatch.qa", "================================================================================\r\nError executing action `create` on resource 'remote_file[d:\\installs\\7.1_HF05_Overlay_SAML_fix.zip]'\r\n================================================================================\r\n\r\nErrno::EACCES\r\n-------------\r\nPermission denied - //targetserver//server.installs//dll.drops//7.1_HF05_Overlay_SAML_fix.zip\r\n\r\nResource Declaration:\r\n---------------------\r\n# In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/AW_DLLDrop/recipes/default.rb\r\n\r\n 27: remote_file \"d:\\\\installs\\\\\#{fname}\" do \r\n 28:   source \"file:////\#{managementServer}//server.installs//dll.drops//\#{fname}\"\r\n 29: end\r\n 30: \r\n\r\nCompiled Resource:\r\n------------------\r\n# Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/AW_DLLDrop/recipes/default.rb:27:in `from_file'\r\n\r\nremote_file(\"d:\\installs\\7.1_HF05_Overlay_SAML_fix.zip\") do\r\n  provider Chef::Provider::RemoteFile\r\n  action \"create\"\r\n  retries 0\r\n  retry_delay 2\r\n  guard_interpreter :default\r\n  path \"d:\\\\installs\\\\7.1_HF05_Overlay_SAML_fix.zip\"\r\n  backup 5\r\n  atomic_update true\r\n  source [\"file:////targetserver//server.installs//dll.drops//7.1_HF05_Overlay_SAML_fix.zip\"]\r\n  use_etag true\r\n  use_last_modified true\r\n  cookbook_name \"AW_DLLDrop\"\r\n  recipe_name \"default\"\r\nend\r\n\r\n"]”

 

 

Thanks

Chris