Multiple users connecting from same Windows box confusing samba?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On 30 Jan 2003, Mark G. Adams wrote:

> We are seeing an intermittent problem with Samba on our RedHat 8.0 file
> server (also seen with RedHat 7.3 prior to the upgrade to 8.0).
> Normally, a Windows XP machine can connect to the file server's shares
> and work on them. However, sometimes after being up for a while,
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> connections from the XP machine to the file server no longer work.
....
> Note that the file server is using security = server, so it doesn't use
> passdb at all.

smbd probably lost the connection to the password server.  I recommend
using security = domain to work around the problem.




cheers, jerry
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