Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (150 mails)

["Bill Antonia" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Williams <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Suse <suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba problem


> 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
>
>