[Samba] Power Failures or Spikes

Thomas Reiß thomas at mypoint.franken.de
Sun Aug 18 00:20:01 GMT 2002


On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:34:41PM +0000, Tom Ansley wrote:
> Actually, it is much simpler....
> 
> The server doesn't even go down.  The power outage is so short that the
> ups keeps the server up so theoretically the server doesn't feel a
> thing.  But when all the clients reboot they have problems connecting. 
> Only once I have restarted smbd and nmbd do they see the network.

Is it possible that you have an Switch between Server and Client that
will fail when power switcht off ?

So that switch need a little time to know the right ARP entries or the
right Negotiation or something ....?

sorry for my poor English

Greetings
Thomas




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