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

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>
> --- Original message ---
> Subject: Re: [Samba] xp clients can't auth after reboot without smb 
> restart
> From: delpheye <delpheye at gmail.com>
> To: Samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 23/06/2010 10:37 AM
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:38 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.
>>
>> wins server is not specified in smb.conf.  I'm using DHCP but have 
>> never
> specified a wins server in the config.  I added it explicitly to one 
> client
> and retesting resulting in no change to the issue.
>
> However, I noticed that wbinfo -u|g doesn't return anything, and that 
> seems
> symptomatic of the problem at the very least.  I have not determined 
> why
> winbind doesn't work correctly, there isn't anything in my config that
> suggests it's broken, yes?

Winbindd isn't the issue for this.  Run some nbtstats on the XP boxes:

command prompt:

nbstat -n
nbstat -r
nbstat -c

After a reboot, and connect failure, do so.  Then try nbstat -RR and 
try net drive connections.

Very peculiar problem you're having.
>
>
>
> Matt
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/22/2010 04:24 PM, delpheye wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Gaiseric Vandal <
>>> gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com <mailto:gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        On 06/22/2010 01:55 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>
>>>                        "An error occurred while reconnecting Z: to
>>>                        \\domain-fs\business
>>>                        Microsoft Windows Network: The specified 
>>> network name is
>>>                        no longer available
>>>                        This connection has not been restored."
>>>
>>>
>>>                Looks like a browsing problem to me. Try to reconnect 
>>> using ip
>>>                address
>>>                instead of name.
>>>
>>>                John
>>>
>>>
>>>        Are you using WINS?  I find that makes a lot of issues go away.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have wins support enabled in Samba and the following lines in
>>> nsswitch.conf:
>>>
>>> debug 1
>>>
>>> passwd:     files ldap
>>> shadow:     files ldap
>>> group:      files ldap
>>> hosts:      files wins dns
>>> bootparams: files
>>> ethers:     files
>>> netmasks:   files
>>> networks:   files
>>> protocols:  files
>>> rpc:        files
>>> services:   files
>>> netgroup:   files ldap
>>> publickey:  files
>>> automount:  files ldap
>>> aliases:    files
>>>
>>> Is that all there is to enabling WINS?
>>>
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