Samba broken again - any ideas?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Graham Leggett wrote:
> 
> > Louis Mandelstam wrote:
> > 
> > > > A general question: Why is samba so unreliable? I have used different
> > > > versions of samba for over two years, and between then and now samba has
> > > > been very unreliable, and doesn't look at becoming more reliable now.
> > > > BUT - having said this I have almost never had the slightest problem
> > > > with samba clients connecting to samba shares, all my problems occur
> > > > Win95 -> samba. BUT having said THAT, Win95 -> Win95 works fine.
> > > 
> > > FWIW, Samba's been rock solid here no matter what I throw at it.
> > 
> > I think at this stage our samba problems are related to reverse DNS,

reverse dns?  um... can you explain this one a little more: i don't quite 
follow how this would have an effect.

> > because every time our internet connection goes down, samba doesn't work
> > properly.


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