[Samba] samba stops updating user shares

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Is this accidental, or are you really being this rude?

=R

nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
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> Can someone please help?
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> nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
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>> Can someone please help?
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>> nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
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>>> Can someone please help?
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>>> nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
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>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I tried some stuff from the samba checklist.
>>>>
>>>> The pc could ping both the samba server shwick_gateway and itself
>>>> shwickhomepc.
>>>> The server couldn't ping shwickhomepc: "ping: unknown host
>>>> shwickhomepc".  It also couldn't ping shwick_gateway.
>>>> On the server when i do "smbclient -L shwick_gateway" I get "Connection
>>>> to shwick_gateway failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)".
>>>> On the server when i do "nmblookup shwickhomepc" it returns the right
>>>> ip.  Also "nmblookup shwick_gateway" is successful.
>>>>
>>>> It seems the netbios lookups are successful from the server and the wins
>>>> lookups are successful from the pc.  The wins lookups aren't successful
>>>> from the server.
>>>>
>>>> I have a bind setup on my machine, but I don't tell samba to check it
>>>> because I want it using the wins server.  I set "dns proxy = no".  I get
>>>> the same results with "dns proxy = yes".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> nabbleusr1234565 wrote:
>>>>> When I share a new folder on my XP box it isn't picked up by samba
>>>>> after a while.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I immediately connect to the network and share a folder samba picks
>>>>> it up.  After about 10 minutes if I share another folder samba won't
>>>>> pick it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I notice the same problem with smbtree- after a while it doesn't list
>>>>> user shares.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After looking at wireshark I could see that samba stopped sending a
>>>>> "Name Query" to my XP box.  XP was still refreshing it's registration
>>>>> about once every 5 minutes though.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using samba 3.0.28a and have no firewalls on the lan, any
>>>>> suggestions are welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> smb.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> [global]
>>>>>         netbios name = SHWICK_GATEWAY
>>>>>         server string = SHWICK_GATEWAY
>>>>>         interfaces = lo, eth1
>>>>>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>>>>>         map to guest = Bad User
>>>>>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>>>>>         syslog only = Yes
>>>>>         name resolve order = lmhosts hosts wins
>>>>>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
>>>>>         os level = 65
>>>>>         preferred master = Yes
>>>>>         domain master = Yes
>>>>>         dns proxy = No
>>>>>         wins support = Yes
>>>>>         invalid users = root
>>>>>
>>>>> [Media]
>>>>>         path = /home/ftp/
>>>>>         create mask = 0640
>>>>>         directory mask = 0750
>>>>>         guest only = Yes
>>>>>         guest ok = Yes 
>>>>>
>>>>
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