[Samba] Semaphore Time Expired

[Derek Smith]

At 08:37 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote:
>I am running Debian 'woody' with Samba 3.0.2 and am having a sparatic 
>problem on my network.
>Some users will suddenly lose their connections to the samba shares and 
>when trying to log in
>to the system again will get an error that windows cannot locate their 
>roaming profile - "Semaphore time period has expired".
>It seems that if they wait for about 15 minutes they can then successfully 
>log back in.
>
>Please help. I am not even sure where to start. I have been googling for 
>an answer for about a
>day and while I have found other people with the same problem, I haven't 
>found many solutions.
>
>Derek
>
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Well after many many days of banging my head I figured out a way to fix 
these problems.
I am not sure if it is the best way but it seems to have worked well.

I edited the /etc/nsswitch.conf file:

[OLD HOSTS LINE]
hosts:   files dns

[NEW HOSTS LINE]
hosts: files

Taking out the dns worked. Since I am running a small network that does not 
span mutliple
sub-nets I do not use DNS to resolve hostnames.  For some reason Samba 
3.0.2a didn't
like it when DNS couldn't resolve an IP into a host name.

Hope this helps someone.

Derek