[Samba] strange behaviour

[Roberto Sacchetti]

Yes, you're right, but the dhcp configuration wasn't changed in the 
night after the restoration...I haven't yet understood what happened and 
I hope someone could help me finding what caused that.

Thank you

Roberto

damiend at mckennagroup.co.uk ha scritto:
> Add WIN server addresses to the dhcp configuration.
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> Damien Dye BSC(hon)
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Samba] strange behaviour (01-Apr-2008 8:16)
> From:    roberto at siros.it
> To:      damiend at mckennagroup.co.uk
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>> Hi all.
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>> Last thursday I've had to restore my customer's pdc from an hdd failure, 
>> and by the evening I restored a full working state of server and 
>> clients, rejoining all of them to the domain.
>> Next morning the customer called me saying that nothing was working, I 
>> looked the server from remote without finding failures and then I went 
>> there: I found that clients couldn't find the pdc and I struggled with 
>> name resolution, but I didn't get the system up until I put the server's 
>> ip address in the WINS servers list in each client's TCP/IP configuration.
>> Can someone tell me what could cause this strange issue? I must say that 
>> the server wasn't shut down the thursday evening, only clients were.
>> What can I do to restore the working state without having to manually 
>> set the WINS server in each client?
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>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Roberto
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