[Samba] SuSE 9.1 Pro

rruegner robert at ruegner.org
Tue Oct 5 18:14:23 GMT 2004


Hi, nice to here
cause i never will use suse again in the future until they do not fix 
this essential
dns bug
Regards
Schlomo Schapiro schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> btw, SuSE support will likely soon release an updated glibc RPM to 
> addresss the .local problem (there you can switch off the MDNS lookups).
> 
> Schlomo
> 
> PS: For iptables you could try http://www.fwbuilder.org/ - it is quite 
> nice.
> 
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, rruegner wrote:
> 
> 
>>Chuck Chauvin schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>Is anyone aware of any specific problems with SuSE 9.1 Pro in regards to 
>>>running Samba as a domain controller? I have been trying for a couple of 
>>>weeks to get it setup but keep running into one roadblock or another.
>>>
>>>Half of the time I can't see the DC at all unless I disable the SuSE 
>>>Firewall altogether, other times I am able to see the DC just not connect if 
>>>I have ports 137, 138, 139 and 445 open.
>>>
>>>I haven't been able to find much help online or in the various forums that I 
>>>frequent and was wondering if anyone knew of any specific probelms with SuSE 
>>>9.1 that I might not be aware of.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Chuck Chauvin
>>>Network Administrator
>>>clchauvin at edcaugusta.com
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>Hi, the simple answer is dont use suse firewall,( iptables scripts are 
>>easy to google )
>>and study more chapters from Samba Browsing
>>I run many samba server under suse without any special problems
>>what you should now is taht you should not use a .local
>>dns domain on your internal nameserver , which is highly recommend
>>for a private network, in suse 9.1 this dns domains are resolved
>>by multicast for miracle reason, without having the magic to disable it.
>>Regards
>>
> 
> 



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