[Samba] samba stops updating user shares

nabbleusr1234565 rogersusr123 at rogers.com
Fri Jan 16 22:34:18 GMT 2009



Can someone please help?


nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
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> Can someone please help?
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> nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
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>> Can anyone help?
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>> I tried some stuff from the samba checklist.
>> 
>> The pc could ping both the samba server shwick_gateway and itself
>> shwickhomepc.
>> The server couldn't ping shwickhomepc: "ping: unknown host shwickhomepc". 
>> It also couldn't ping shwick_gateway.
>> On the server when i do "smbclient -L shwick_gateway" I get "Connection
>> to shwick_gateway failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)".
>> On the server when i do "nmblookup shwickhomepc" it returns the right ip. 
>> Also "nmblookup shwick_gateway" is successful.
>> 
>> It seems the netbios lookups are successful from the server and the wins
>> lookups are successful from the pc.  The wins lookups aren't successful
>> from the server.
>> 
>> I have a bind setup on my machine, but I don't tell samba to check it
>> because I want it using the wins server.  I set "dns proxy = no".  I get
>> the same results with "dns proxy = yes".
>> 
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>> nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I share a new folder on my XP box it isn't picked up by samba after
>>> a while.
>>> 
>>> If I immediately connect to the network and share a folder samba picks
>>> it up.  After about 10 minutes if I share another folder samba won't
>>> pick it up.
>>> 
>>> I notice the same problem with smbtree- after a while it doesn't list
>>> user shares.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> After looking at wireshark I could see that samba stopped sending a
>>> "Name Query" to my XP box.  XP was still refreshing it's registration
>>> about once every 5 minutes though.
>>> 
>>> I'm using samba 3.0.28a and have no firewalls on the lan, any
>>> suggestions are welcome.
>>> 
>>> smb.conf
>>> 
>>> [global]
>>>         netbios name = SHWICK_GATEWAY
>>>         server string = SHWICK_GATEWAY
>>>         interfaces = lo, eth1
>>>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>>>         map to guest = Bad User
>>>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>>>         syslog only = Yes
>>>         name resolve order = lmhosts hosts wins
>>>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
>>>         os level = 65
>>>         preferred master = Yes
>>>         domain master = Yes
>>>         dns proxy = No
>>>         wins support = Yes
>>>         invalid users = root
>>> 
>>> [Media]
>>>         path = /home/ftp/
>>>         create mask = 0640
>>>         directory mask = 0750
>>>         guest only = Yes
>>>         guest ok = Yes 
>>> 
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