I've sent a couple of messages (acknowledgements of help received) to this list but they don't seem to have appeared. I'm trying again through desperation in the hope that this gets through. Well, the start of term approaches and my task over the holiday was to setup new fileserving services. I have setup 2 SuSE 6.4 based file servers using Samba. One is for storage of work and the other for delivering applications. They work fine at home on a small 10baseT network and I can access a W95 client and an Acorn client. However, at school they behave in a very strange way. The main fileserver boots ok with no apparent errors. However, I cannot connect to it through samba from any client even though smbstatus reports everything ok. If I restart Samba it works ok. I am very concerned that there is some underlying problem which is going to surface when the system is more heavily loaded. Something similar happens if I disconnect the server and try to connect from a client and then reconnect the server. Smbstatus says everything is ok but it doesn't work until it is restarted. Does anyone have any ideas? Dave Williams ICT Coordinator Derby Moor CS
Could there be conflict with the domain Windows NT master server? You can
only have one master domain server within a domain. Is samba set up to be
subordinate, taking domain users and passwords from a domain master?
If not, there may be your problem.
Bill Antonia
Beacon Community College
Home e-mail bill@beaconhillcott.freeserve.co.uk
Work e-mail at@beacon.e-sussex.sch.uk
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From: Dave Williams
I've sent a couple of messages (acknowledgements of help received) to this list but they don't seem to have appeared. I'm trying again through desperation in the hope that this gets through.
Well, the start of term approaches and my task over the holiday was to setup new fileserving services. I have setup 2 SuSE 6.4 based file servers using Samba. One is for storage of work and the other for delivering applications. They work fine at home on a small 10baseT network and I can access a W95 client and an Acorn client.
However, at school they behave in a very strange way. The main fileserver boots ok with no apparent errors. However, I cannot connect to it through samba from any client even though smbstatus reports everything ok. If I restart Samba it works ok. I am very concerned that there is some underlying problem which is going to surface when the system is more heavily loaded.
Something similar happens if I disconnect the server and try to connect from a client and then reconnect the server. Smbstatus says everything is ok but it doesn't work until it is restarted.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Dave Williams ICT Coordinator Derby Moor CS
On 03 Sep, Bill Antonia
Could there be conflict with the domain Windows NT master server? You can only have one master domain server within a domain. Is samba set up to be subordinate, taking domain users and passwords from a domain master? If not, there may be your problem.
We do not have an NT master server. The main samba server is acting as the domain controller. I have made some invstigations into the domain master browser issue. Main server has os level set to 65 which means it should win any elections and is set as domain master, preferred master, local master, domain logons, wins support, dns proxy and security = user. The second server is set to security=server, wins server=(main server) and all other master options to no. The setup works fine after restarting samba on the main server but dies when the server is rebooted. I am confused. Dave
On the second server, do you have a line in your /etc/smb.conf file
which sets the password server to be your main server?
You could send me both smb.conf files to have a look at. I use samba quite a
bit at Beacon CC, so I'm reasonably familiar with the setup.
Regards
Bill Antonia
Beacon Community College
Home bill@beaconhillcott.freeserve.co.uk
Work at@beacon.e-sussex.sch.uk
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From: Dave Williams
On 03 Sep, Bill Antonia
wrote: Could there be conflict with the domain Windows NT master server? You can only have one master domain server within a domain. Is samba set up to be subordinate, taking domain users and passwords from a domain master? If not, there may be your problem.
We do not have an NT master server. The main samba server is acting as the domain controller.
I have made some invstigations into the domain master browser issue. Main server has os level set to 65 which means it should win any elections and is set as domain master, preferred master, local master, domain logons, wins support, dns proxy and security = user.
The second server is set to security=server, wins server=(main server) and all other master options to no.
The setup works fine after restarting samba on the main server but dies when the server is rebooted.
I am confused.
Dave
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