rookie help, please

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

At 12:21 PM 1/12/00 +1100, Tavis Barr wrote:
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>Another approach, if you're worried about too much reconfiguration, is to 
>turn down the os level to something that won't override the NT servers, 
>like 20.  You should also make sure you have domain logons = no unless there 
>are users logging onto your Samba box, and that domian master = no.

Well, actually, as I found out when trawling through the code, os level =
20 is the default with Samba 2.0.6 and beyond ...

If there are users logging onto your Samba box, they you probably have
Samba as your PDC, but the advice is good. Hmmm. thinks! 

>Good luck,
>Tavis
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>On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gordon Steven-QSG001 wrote:
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>> Try adding:
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>> local master = No
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>> to your smb.conf file.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matthew Geddes [mailto:mgeddes at xavier.sa.edu.au]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 4:46 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
>> Subject: Re: rookie help, please
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>> erik schlichting wrote:
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>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I am the de-facto administrator of our city's Sun
>> > box(Solaris 2.6). I know very little about networking. This
>> > machine was set up with Samba(v1.9.18) by an administrator
>> > that is no longer with the city. The rest of the city runs
>> > on an NT network, which I know even less about. I have no
>> > administrative rights or responsibilities on the NT network.
>> >
>> > The UNIX box houses ArcInfo GIS files which are shared out
>> > to NT users, who have limited accounts (no home directory)
>> > on the sun machine. Not all the city's users have accounts
>> > on the Sun.
>> >
>> > Here's the problem: lately, the Sun machine has been getting
>> > promoted to PDC daily, which of course causes havoc with the
>> > users when they can't log in. The NT administrators can't
>> > solve the problem (other than "It's Samba. you must bring it
>> > down" or reboot their machine), and I don't know what to
>> > tell them. I know this happened when Samba was first
>> > installed, but then solved & went w/o a hitch for months.
>> >
>> > Have others had this problem, and can you offer some advice?
>> > Is it NT or Unix having troubles? Is it really Samba causing
>> > the problem?
>> 
>> Samba is promoting *itself* to PDC? Do you mean Master Browser?
>> 
>> 
>> What version of Samba? Is there any info in the log files?
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course