[Samba] Logon Script Sometimes Does Not Execute

[David van Geyn]

Hi,

In my laptop, I have an Intel Pro/100 VE, two of the workstations have 3Com
3c905's, and another two have D-Link 10/100 cards. The network switch is a
D-Link DES-1032 10/100, and in the past it was a 3Com Superstack II 10mbit
switch. The server has another D-Link card and up until a year ago had a 10
baseT 3Com card. Seems like every type of card combination i've used still
produces the problem. If I do ping -f (flood) from the server to other hosts
on the network, out of 40k packets only 2 on average are lost.. the same
with all of the computers.

39862 packets transmitted, 39860 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.199/0.227/8.560/0.043 ms

The cabling is also in very good condition. I never have any packet loss
problems and I can manage 80-85 mbits/sec at most between computers on the
network.

I'm really at a loss as to why this occurs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
To: "David van Geyn" <dataiv-listsNOSPAM at noc.peon.net>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Logon Script Sometimes Does Not Execute


> David,
>
> The info below clears that one up. Now my next question my sound like a
> long shot, but what sort of network cards and HUBs do you have? Is the
> cabling in good condition?
>
> - John T.
>
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, David van Geyn wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
>
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> John H Terpstra
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