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

[John H Terpstra]

On 06/23/2010 07:50 PM, delpheye wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:57 PM, <tms3 at tms3.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> SNIP
>>
>>  NetBIOS Names Resolved By Broadcast
>> ------------------------------------------
>>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>>         DOMAIN-FS
>>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>>         DOMAIN-FS
>>         DOMAIN.COM  <1C>
>>
>> DOMAIN.COM is a bad netbios name.  I suggest something with 8 letters or
>> numbers.  Samba 3.x does not use FQDN's.
>>
> 
> 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?

Wrong! Both the machine _AND_ the workgroup name are NetBIOS names.

- John T.

> 
>> nbtstat -RR:
>>
>> The NetBIOS names registered by this computer have been refreshed.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The specified network name is no longer available.
>>
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>>>
>>> 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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