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

[delpheye]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:57 PM, <tms3 at tms3.com> wrote:

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>  NetBIOS Names Resolved By Broadcast
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>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>         DOMAIN-FS
>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>         DOMAIN-FS
>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
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> DOMAIN.COM is a bad netbios name.  I suggest something with 8 letters or
> numbers.  Samba 3.x does not use FQDN's.
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DOMAIN.COM is what I have specified as the workgroup only.  the netbios name
in smb.conf is is just the machine's hostname only.  Is there somewhere else
I should be looking to change the netbios name?

> nbtstat -RR:
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> The NetBIOS names registered by this computer have been refreshed.
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> net use y: \\domain-fs\business
> Enter the user name for 'domain-fs': username
> Enter the password for domain-fs: xxxxxx
> System error 64 has occurred.
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> The specified network name is no longer available.
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>> Matt
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>> On 06/22/2010 04:24 PM, delpheye wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Gaiseric Vandal <
>> gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com <mailto:gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>      On 06/22/2010 01:55 PM, John Drescher wrote:
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>>              "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."
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>>          Looks like a browsing problem to me. Try to reconnect using ip
>>          address
>>          instead of name.
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>>          John
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>>      Are you using WINS? I find that makes a lot of issues go away.
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>> I have wins support enabled in Samba and the following lines in
>> nsswitch.conf:
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>> debug 1
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>> 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
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>> Is that all there is to enabling WINS?
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