Users get network timeout errors

[James Simons]

Ken,

Thank you for your response.  I have managed to get one computer 
authenticated through samba so far...I read in the archives where some 
people had experienced a similar problem that they could eventually get 
in after repeatedly trying the connection.  It worked after about 30 
minutes of clicking and waiting on one computer.  All others are still 
timing out

I don't have a WINS server in place at the moment...thought it would be 
overkill for the 15 or so users that I have.  Would you suggest that I 
add one?  

I am not very familiar with xinetd how would I go about checking to see 
what it is blocking?

Thank you very much,
James Simons

Ken Cobler wrote:

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>James Simons wrote:
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>>At first I thought the issue was contained to my Win2k machines, it is
>>not.  Windows 98 and Me report that "the network is busy."  I have seen
>>some posts in the archives that have mentioned that the problemn can be
>>worked around by trying several times to connect, but I can not do this
>>in this instance.  I've run smbstatus and do not receive any errors.
>>
>>Please someone out there give me a hand.
>>
>>Thank You,
>>James Simons
>>
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>Is WINS setup on Samba and/or the proper WINS setting typed in each Windows
>computer?  This can help a lot to reduce connection time.
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>Adding a WINS server to translate Netbios to IP address speeds logons up.
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>Also, for RedHat 7.X, you might have to open up netbios services (TCP 137,
>UDP 138) with xinetd.  Could be that xinetd is blocking the connection and
>you are waiting for xinetd to timeout before allowing Samba to grab the
>ports.
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>Ken
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