[Samba] Re: Samba shares on Linux machine get disconnected after ~ 1 min

[Helge Schichlein]

Hallo,

besten Dank, es funktioniert. Ich habe die smb.conf-Datei neu aufgesetzt und 
dabei noch einiges über Browser Elections gelernt!

Gruß, Helge

Walter Mautner schrieb:
> Helge Schichlein wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have Samba 3.0.13 running on Suse 9.2 on an i586.
>>
>> I can browse and connect to the Samba shares on the Linux machine from
>> Windows XP and Mac OSX.
>>
>> However, about 1 min after connecting, the shares are lost and gone from
>> the network environment - same for Windows XP and Mac OSX. From time to
>> time, they "re-appear" only to be gone after another minute or so.
>>
> That looks like a browsemaster issue: some other pc is fighting with your
> samba server to become the workgroup master (and that pc obviously does not
> carry the shares)
>  
> ...
>> # Global parameters
>> [global]
>>      workgroup = kauai
>>      server string = Samba 3.0.13 at napali.kauai.de
>>      map to guest = Bad User
>>      username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>>      printcap cache time = 750
>>      logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
>>      logon drive = P:
>>      logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
>>      printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator
>>      cups options = raw
>>      include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
>>      add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody
>>      -s
>> /bin/false %m$
>>      domain logons = No
>>      domain master = No
>>      security = user
> 
> You have set "domain master" to no, which just means you don't want your
> server to appear as a _workgroup_ browse master. Even if you do not want a
> NT style domain, you should consider changing this - unless you have
> another domain controller which also does carry the members list by
> default. But then, you would want a reference to that in your smb.conf
> as "wins server = <IP>".
> If you keep running this server 24/7, there should be no reason to not make
> it "domain master" and "local master" and "preferred master" as well, or /
> and use the "wins support" directive, together with
> the "netbios-name-server" stanza in your dhcpd configuration or (done
> through ADIDAS-Admins) adding the IP of your wins server to each clients
> tcpip settings - advanced - WINS entries.
> 
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