[Samba] Re: Bizarre problems with two Samba in the same workgroup

Fri Mar 10 01:04:29 GMT 2006

I have resolved part of my problems. The shares won't show up if they have
more than 12 characters. That was happening with documentacion and my home
(they have 13 characters).
I have lowered the os level from 200 to 65 in the new server (the
recommended value), and 65 to 0 in the old server (to not take part in
master browser elections). That seems to give better results.
But I still can't see the old server (Samba 2.2 configured as client) in the
browsing list (mantained in the new Samba 3.0.14 server). I have the
following question

I can see an entry in wins.dat for the old and new server but nothing more,
although when I see browse.dat I can see the browsing list ok except for the
old server. Is that ok?? shouldn't I see an entry in wins.dat for every
client configured to use wins??

Why Samba 3.0 doesn't add Samba 2.2 to the browsing list??

Thanks in advance

On 3/8/06, Guillermo Dalla Vecchia <hertor28 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had to setup a new Samba server as a PDC in my job (Samba 3.0) to
> replace and existing Samba server PDC (Samba 2.2), the old server was
> running ldap as backend, the new is running tdbsam. I have a lot of bizarre
> problems when I put both in the same workgroup with other machines. I will
> give you a list of them:
>
> 1) The new server is configured as local master browser and domain master
> browser, with this configuration the old server never appears in the network
> neighborhood.
>
> 2) The servers have the same shares. If I define a new share in one of
> them. the share appears in the other if I see it in network neighborhood.
> The content of the shares of the new server are the same of the old one if a
> see them in the network neighborhood (although they are not the same).
>
> 3) There is a share defined in the new server (documentacion) that doesn't
> appear in network neighborhood (I can only connect to it from command line
> with smbclient) eventhough the same share works ok in the old server.
>
> 4) If I do nmblookup -MT <Workgroup> the result are the IPs of both
> servers.
>
> 5) The home of my user doesn't appear in network neighborhood but other
> users appear ok.
>
>
> Next I will give you the content of smb.conf of both servers:
>
> New server running Samba 3.0 (IP 192.168.5.150) in Debian Sarge 3.1
>
> [global]
>
> workgroup = PRUEBA
> server string = Servidor2
> netbios name = SERVIDOR2
> wins support = yes
> dns proxy = yes
> name resolve order = wins host lmhosts bcast
> local master = yes
> os level = 200
> preferred master = yes
> browse list = yes
> domain logons = yes
> domain master = yes
> add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -s
> /bin/false -M %u
> logon home =
> logon drive = Z:
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 1000
> syslog = 0
> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
> security = user
> encrypt passwords = true
> passdb backend = tdbsam
> unix password sync = yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password:* %n\n *Retype*new*UNIX*password:* %n\n
> *passwd:*password*updated*successfully*
> log level = 3
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>
> [homes]
> comment = Home del usuario %U
> valid users = %S
> browseable = no
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
>
> [profiles]
> comment = Perfiles de usuarios
> path = /home/profiles
> writeable = yes
> browseable = no
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
>
> [netlogon]
> comment = Network Logon Service
> path = /home/netlogon
> read only = yes
> browseable = no
>
> [documentacion]
> comment =  Documentacion ISO 9001
> path = /home/docs/
> valid users = +users
>
> public = yes
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0640
> directory mask = 0750
>
> [grupos]
> comment =  Directorio compartido de grupos
> path = /home/grupos
> # ver el macro %S
> valid users = +users
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0660
> directory mask = 0770
>
> [noconf]
> comment =  No conformidades ISO 9001
> path = /home/NoConf/
> valid users = +users
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0664
> directory mask = 0775
>
> *******************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
>
> Old server running Samba 2.2 (IP 192.168.5.99) in Debian Woody
>
> workgroup = PRUEBA
> netbios name = SERVIDOR
> server string = Servidor
> domain admin group = " @"Domain Admins" "
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> security = user
> password level = 16
> username level = 16
> encrypt passwords = yes
> unix password sync = yes
> passwd program = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-passwd.pl -o %u
> passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
> ldap server = localhost
> ldap port = 389
> ldap ssl = no
> ldap suffix = "dc=ledefyl,dc=com"
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> interfaces = 192.168.5.99/24 127.0.0.1
> bind interfaces only = yes
> local master = no
> os level = 65
> domain master = no
> preferred master = no
> domain logons = no
> name resolve order = wins host lmhosts bcast
> wins server = 192.168.5.150
> dns proxy = no
> wins proxy = yes
> logon home =
> logon drive = Z:
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
> logon script = startup.bat
> add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap- useradd.pl -m -d /dev/null -g
> computers -s /bin/false
>
> [homes]
> comment = Home del usuario %U
> valid users = %S
> browseable = no
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
>
> [profiles]
> comment = Perfiles de usuarios
> path = /home/profiles
> writeable = yes
> browseable = no
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
>
> [netlogon]
> comment = Network Logon Service
> path = /home/netlogon
> read only = yes
> browseable = no
> write list = root,"@"Domain Admins""
>
> [grupos]
> path = /home/grupos
> comment =  Directorio compartido de grupos
> # ver el macro %S
> valid users = +users
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0660
> directory mask = 0770
>
> [documentacion]
> comment =  Documentacion ISO 9001
> path = /home/iso9001/docs/
> valid users = +users
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0640
> directory mask = 0750
>
> [noconf]
> comment =  No conformidades ISO 9001
> path = /home/iso9001/NoConf/
> valid users = +users
> browseable = yes
> writeable = yes
> create mask = 0664
> directory mask = 0775
>
>
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone can tell me what's wrong or point me to
> a webpage, file, post in a samba list, or any source of information.
>
> Thanks in advance
>