[Samba] Help

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Wed Nov 20 01:48:01 GMT 2002


On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Ngu wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm using samba 2.07 under Redhat linux 7.1, and the linux server has an
> internal IP addr. number.  I use Windows 98, XP as clients to connect to
> samba and map drive;  Everything work fine, however, everytime the
> internet is down then I can't logon to samba at all.  If the internet is
> down and I restart the Windows machines to log on to the workgroup (samba)
> then it gives me an error message as "No domain server was available to
> validate your password.  You might not be able to access to some network
> resources".
>
> Is there a way that I can setup Samba to work in a LAN environment only
> (not dependable on the DNS or Internet)?

Are you using WINS? If your samba server is dependant on broadcast and DNS
lookups (since DNS lookups are blocking calls!) you will have a problem.
But with WINS this is avoided. Configure your Samba servers as a WINS
server: in smb.conf [globals] set "wins support = yes", and set your
Windows clients tcp/ip config for WINS server to the internal IP address
of your samba server, and this problem should go away.

- John T.

>
> Thank you very much in advance for your help.
>
> David N.
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org




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