[Samba] Logon Script Sometimes Does Not Execute

[David van Geyn]

Hi,

I forgot to mention these things, but yes, I am using the same Samba server
as my WINS server, and all the workstations here use DHCP. IPCONFIG /ALL
shows that the WINS server is indeed specified correctly.

Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 172.20.1.1

I also have the option 'wins proxy = Yes' - Not sure if that would affect
it, but the option sounded like it would be good to have set as 'Yes' for
some older clients (that albeit are no longer on the network these days).

Thanks

David

> David,
>
> Recently we have seen a few reports of this as a problem. It has been
> my experience that intermittent failure to exec a logon script is
> related to a name ersolution problem.
>
> Are you using a WINS server? ie: Is samba your WINS server with in
> smb.conf [globals]:
> 	wins support = yes
>
> _OR_ an MS Windows NT4/2000 Server that has the WINS server installed
> and configured.
>
> Also, do all your MS Windows machine TCP/IP settings having the IP
> addresss of the WINS server correctly set?
>
> - John T.
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, David van Geyn wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been searching through the list archives on
>> marc.theaimsgroup.com, and haven't found many suggestions relating to
>> this problem. What's happening, is that maybe 5 out of 100 network
>> logons the logon script does not execute, and none of my drives are
>> mapped. This happens on both NT 4.0 Workstations as well as Windows
>> 2000. It's been happening as long as I can remember (since several
>> years ago when I started using Samba) and I've never found a way to
>> solve this problem. I can't find any links between the times this
>> happens and anything else. It just seems to happen at random. Does
>> anyone else have this problem, or have any suggestions for trying to
>> solve it?
>>
>> I'm using Samba 2.2.8 on a FreeBSD 4.5 server, but, as I said it's
>> been happening for a long time using all kinds of versions of Samba.
>> The server itself has very little load on it; usually the load
>> averages hover around 0.04 or less.
>>
>> In the global section of my smb.conf, I have
>> logon script = %U.bat
>>
>> And the [netlogon] share is like so:
>> [netlogon]
>>   comment = Network Logon Service
>>   path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
>>   admin users = dataiv
>>   read only = No
>>
>> Thanks for any help or suggestions,
>>
>> David van Geyn