[Samba] I have to keep removing and readding systems to my domain:

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Bruce Ballou wrote:

> Hello,
> Issue:  I have to keep removing and readding systems to my domain:
>
> I have a FreeBSD (4.2) back end running samba-2.2.8a
>
>
> At the end/beginning of each month a lot of my Windows XP (sp2) clients have
> to be removed from the domain and then readded.  I cannot isolate why this
> is happening, and it is driving me crazy...
I have been running Samba-2.x and 3.x on FreeBSD 4.x , 5.x and 
6.1 with WinNT4, Win2k and WinXP clients and never seen anything 
like that.
- Perhaps your server hardware is growing old? (Defect CPU fans,
   system clocks cause extremly strange problems, not to talk about bad
   NICS)
- Perhaps one of your switches/routers is defect? (Everything
   including a complete freeze of the server might happen. Do
   your clients perhaps hang on the same switch?)

This might be a good chance for you to acquire/test/setup some 
new Hardware :-)

Regards,

Uli.


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