update: HELP -- upgrade to 1.9.18p8 causing print/disk trouble ...
Jim Farrell
jwf at platinum.com
Mon Jul 20 16:29:23 GMT 1998
I've confirmed that our 1.9.18p8 master samba server is indeed having some
sort of problem on our network. On my personal PC, if I disable WINS, I
cannot connect to any shares or printers on this server at all. If I
enable WINS, it all works fine.
Has anyone else seen similar behavior? I was previously running 1.9.18p4
without any trouble .... then I upgraded and a whole slew of PC's suddenly
couldn't connect to the server any longer. What's even stranger is that I
upgraded 4 server with the same exact binaries ... the other three server
authenticate against the master server and have similar configurations.
If WINS isn't set on a PC, they can still get to the other slave servers
just fine, but the master server refuses all connections to that PC.
Any thoughts?
-- jim
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jim Farrell wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded all our site's samba servers to 1.9.18p8, and I seem to
> be having many strange problems where they didn't exist before. I haven't
> made any changes to smb.conf.
>
> The biggest trouble I seem to have is that people can no longer access
> printers ... NT/95 just gives a generic "path to server not available"
> message. Some nodes even have trouble connecting to shares. When the
> PC's browse the network, then can see the server just fine, but often
> cannot browse any shares on the server. Rebooting the PC doesn't help.
>
> I've found that if I configure the WINS services on the PC's, the trouble
> often goes away. On NT I set "use DNS for WINS resolution". Once WINS is
> properly configured, the PC seems to work fine. smbclient from any
> machine on the network, and on other subnets has no trouble connecting to
> the samba services at all.
>
> I've never had to use WINS services before on my local PC's .... but I set
> the samba server up (a long while ago) to serve WINS anyway just in case
> people needed it. Now, it looks as if the PC's won't work at all unless
> WINS services are enabled.
>
> The [global] section of my smb.conf appears below .... any pointers/help
> would be appreciated. If I cannot solve this issue soon, I'll have to
> back the server upgrade out and continue running older versions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- jim
>
> (IP of this server is 192.168.45.20)
>
> [global]
> deadtime = 10
> domain master = yes
> encrypt passwords = yes
> guest account = nobody
> load printers = yes
> log file = /usr/local/samba/var/logs/log.%m
> null passwords = no
> os level = 60
> preferred master = yes
> printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap
> printing = sysv
> remote announce = 192.168.166.255/ABLAB 192.168.112.255/ASTLAB
> 192.168.45.255/ABLAB
> remote browse sync = 192.168.166.100 192.168.112.18
> security = user
> server string = ablab server
> share modes = no
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> strict locking = no
> time server = true
> username map = /usr/local/samba/private/mapnames
> wins proxy = yes
> wins support = yes
> workgroup = ABLAB
>
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