[Samba] strange Samba - NT4 domain connectivity problem.

[Casey Lewis]

Not sure. Normally I run 'killall -HUP smbd nmbd' or /etc/rc.d/rc.samba 
restart on slackware boxes.
I'm fairly certain that nmbd and smbd are both running after running 
either of the above commands, at least 'ps' says they're running :)

I've configured up another WINS box in our NT4 domain and will see if 
the additional (secondary) WINS fixes our problem.

I have also added the IP to the wins server statement in my smb.conf:
  wins server = 192.168.3.12 192.168.3.7

Thanks for the help.
-casey

richard wrote:

>I have noticed on Redhat that if I do.. service smb restart
>smbd is restarted but nmbd is not. Could this be your problem?
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>On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 00:44, Casey Lewis wrote:
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>>I'm wondering if this has something to do with WINS? The reason I ask is 
>>that we are only running one WINS box and its the PDC. We do have a BDC, 
>>but no WINS running.
>>Anyone having a similar problem?
>>Thanks,
>>-casey
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>>>Hi all.
>>>I'm having a strange intermittent problem with Samba 2.2.8a losing 
>>>connectivity with our PDC and BDC. We are currently having a problem 
>>>with our PDC restarting due to a bug check about 2-3 times a month.
>>>When this happens and the PDC is restarted or anytime it is restarted, 
>>>we are not able to map shares on any of our 5 servers using samba 
>>>2.2.8a - the fix is to kill smbd and nmbd and restart both.
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