Hi

From: Joe Morris (NTM) [mailto:Joe_Morris@ntm.org] On 01/23/2002 01:03 PM, jonathan wrote:

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When i have the shares/ drive letters mapped, whatever, Ill goto access them and that computer will just lockup or timeout for about 1 minute, then it will resume operation normally.

It sounds like a DNS type problem. Try adding the Windows IPs mapping to the servers /etc/samba/lmhosts. It works for me. I am running DHCP doing dynamic updates to DNS, but it appears samba won't find the machines unless they are in lmhosts. Worth a shot.

Another idea would be setting nmbd as WINS. Just add the directive "domain master = yes" somewhere in the common area of your smb.conf. (http://at.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#DOMAINMASTER) You have to configure your windows clients to use the server as WINS and make sure your server knows all the names and ip-addresses. Either set up DHCP and DNS for your network or enter all the ip-addresses and names in /etc/hosts. regards, Stefan