[Samba] Fwd: xp clients can't auth after reboot without smb restart

[John Drescher]

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From: delpheye <delpheye at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] xp clients can't auth after reboot without smb restart
To: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>




On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
> <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > in smb.conf
> >
> >        wins support = Yes
> >
> > Don't set
> >            wins server = ....
> >
> >
> > I don't think the nsswitch.conf is an issue-  it seems like the client has
> > trouble finding the server.  Are you using dhcp?  If so, the DHCP server
> > (even a unix one) should be able to assign WINS.   If you are not using
> > dhcp, or if your dhcp server can not assign wins, you can statically set it
> > on the XP client.
> >
>
> Is the WINS server setup in the XP client?

I manually specified the WINS server in the network adapater and
retested, but there wasn't any change in behavior.