Samba 2.0.5 vs 2.0.7

Bill Parker dogbert at netnevada.net
Mon Nov 13 19:45:29 GMT 2000


At 02:30 PM 11/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Bill Parker wrote:
>> 
>> Hi There,
>> 
>>         I was wondering if it is necessary to upgrade from Samba 2.0.5
>> to Samba 2.0.7, and if so, what is the best way to accomplish this
>> on a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 system.  I tried installing the Samba-2.0.7
>> binary rpm and also rebuilding it from source, with no LUCK as it
>> has dependencies which it uses (glibc 2.2, etc)...would a better method
>> be to completely remove Samba 2.0.5 from a machine and install 2.0.7
>> via tarball, and then use ./configure, make, and make install?  Also
>> what about startup scripts for samba itself?
>
>Far from being an expert (not far from being a lazy sh!#), I'd say, if
>the existing samba does everything you need then leave well enough
>alone.  What specific issues are you trying to clear up by moving to
>2.0.7?

Ok, first of all, the first machine I was able to get Samba working on
flawlessly, it shows up in network neighborhood, I can double click on
it to get access to my linux box, etc.  This second machine is set up
the same WAY (except for the NetBIOS name, IP's etc), however, it cannot
be seen in Network Neighborhood at all, and if I do smbclient -L localhost
<enter> and <enter> at the password prompt, this is what is displayed:

Password: 
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.5]

Sharename      Type      Comment
---------      ----      -------
temp           Disk      Temporary File Space
bottom         Disk      Bottom of the Filesystem
etc            Disk      You know what this one is
usr            Disk      You know what this one is too
IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server on Caldera Openlinux 2.3)

Server               Comment
---------            -------
NERMAL               Samba Server on Caldera Openlinux 2.3
NEWDBC               

Workgroup            Master
---------            -------
WORKGROUP            NERMAL

Now on the machine which I cannot find via network neighborhood I get this
from the same command:

Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.5]

Sharename      Type      Comment
---------      ----      -------
temp           Disk      Temporary File Space
bottom         Disk      Bottom of the Filesystem
etc            Disk      You know what this one is
usr            Disk      You know what this one is too
IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server on Caldera Openlinux 2.3)

Server               Comment
---------            -------
HTMLODDS             Samba Server on Caldera Openlinux 2.3

Workgroup            Master
---------            -------
WORKGROUP            

on each machine, eth0 on the machine which works has an ip of xxx.yyy.zzz.25
eth0 on the machine which does not show up has xxx.yyy.zzz.15,

eth1 of the machine which shows up in network neighborhood has a private
ip of 192.168.3.1, and eth1 of the machine which does not show up has a
ip of 192.168.7.1

I also got an i/o error from samba 2.0.5 after I had mounted a NT server
share (inet_server_1)\C$ which returned an smbfs-retry (error code = -3)
which forced me to reboot the machine (it hung during shutdown, btw)...
(this issue has me more concerned, as we are attempting to get wintendo
servers out, and linux servers in as production machines) :-)

Any ideas (i'm also cross posting this to the Samba mailing list)

-Bill






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