[Samba] xp clients can't auth after reboot without smb restart

[delpheye]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
<gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>wrote:

> in smb.conf
>
>        wins support = Yes
>
> Don't set
>            wins server = ....
>
>
> I don't think the nsswitch.conf is an issue-  it seems like the client has
> trouble finding the server.  Are you using dhcp?  If so, the DHCP server
> (even a unix one) should be able to assign WINS.   If you are not using
> dhcp, or if your dhcp server can not assign wins, you can statically set it
> on the XP client.
>
> wins server is not specified in smb.conf.  I'm using DHCP but have never
specified a wins server in the config.  I added it explicitly to one client
and retesting resulting in no change to the issue.

However, I noticed that wbinfo -u|g doesn't return anything, and that seems
symptomatic of the problem at the very least.  I have not determined why
winbind doesn't work correctly, there isn't anything in my config that
suggests it's broken, yes?

Matt

>
>
>
> On 06/22/2010 04:24 PM, delpheye wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Gaiseric Vandal <
>> gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com <mailto:gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 06/22/2010 01:55 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>
>>            "An error occurred while reconnecting Z: to
>>            \\domain-fs\business
>>            Microsoft Windows Network: The specified network name is
>>            no longer available
>>            This connection has not been restored."
>>
>>
>>        Looks like a browsing problem to me. Try to reconnect using ip
>>        address
>>        instead of name.
>>
>>        John
>>
>>
>>    Are you using WINS?  I find that makes a lot of issues go away.
>>
>>
>> I have wins support enabled in Samba and the following lines in
>> nsswitch.conf:
>>
>> debug 1
>>
>> passwd:     files ldap
>> shadow:     files ldap
>> group:      files ldap
>> hosts:      files wins dns
>> bootparams: files
>> ethers:     files
>> netmasks:   files
>> networks:   files
>> protocols:  files
>> rpc:        files
>> services:   files
>> netgroup:   files ldap
>> publickey:  files
>> automount:  files ldap
>> aliases:    files
>>
>> Is that all there is to enabling WINS?
>>
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