Winders or Samba problem..

Mon May 17 11:34:35 PDT 2004

ok, lets go this route...

I ran COL eD2.4 for about a year with frequent updates to samba for security
patches etc.  That was the only thing that changed till about 3 months ago,
including no clean installs of winders comps, everything was just dandy.

Did a booboo on the COL box that prolly would have either required a major
amount of work to fix, or a miracle..  Installed Trustix Secure Linux v1.5
on the box after a hardware upgrade.  Using my confs for various item, i.e.
samba, dhcpd... I activated all items, nothing gave me a fit, everything
worked for three months.  my latest backup of confs of course happened at
the beginning of the week prior to noticing they were missing in NN.  I also
did an automated update for trustix using their swup --upgrade about a 2 or
3 days prior to noticing they were gone.  This is not on just one comp, but
network wide.  I of course copied out my backup smb.conf over the new one
and restarted samba and nmbd with init scripts.  This did nothing.

I have since removed all network components on each comp and reinstalled.  I
have made double and triple sure that port all ports are open internally.
My lan has unrestricted access internally.  IPChains restrictions outbound,
including netbios etc.

All systems are pingable via IP and name but shares are not viewable.  All
current mapped drives work as though they are on the harddisk. I have tried
adding new users to winders and of course linux/samba as well and log into
winders with the new users and a clean network setup.  Nothing.

This is truly the strangest thing I have ever seen...

As for WINS, no all comps are set to use DHCP for wins of course all are
pointed at the linuxbox for dhcp.  All are assigned via mac addies.  Im
almost certain this is not a samba problem as nothing has changed on it, it
seems to be somethign with winders.  I have all the boxes current on their
security patches etc...

yes, start run \\servername to each box produces the available shares..
including to the samba server...

I have OS level for samba set at 65 as well...

I jsut dont know what else to check...

Thanks for the help...

Bill Day

Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586
  8:10pm  up 17 days, 10:06,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Carpenter <matt at e-i-s.cc>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Winders or Samba problem..

> Is this a new install or did this somehow change suddenly?
> Let me get this straight - you are running SMB through the firewall?  Are
> you running WINS?  Where does the WINS-Server live?
>
> You are aware that Network Neighborhood has always been a at-will system,
> right?  It works at it's own will.  If you are NOT running WINS, then you
> typically have to have machines on the network and unchanging for a long
> time before browsing works.  You should be able to get to the machines by
> Start->Run->"\\servername"
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:36:57 -0400
> "William F. Day" <bill at daysdomain.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all..  I have a TSL1.5(Trustix Secure Linux) box running kernel
> > 2.2.20 with samba 2.2.5 from the distro itself...
> >
> > The problem is that all of a sudden, none of the win98SE clients on the
> > network can view the shares or any of the computers on the network.
> > However, the kicker.. all mapped drives still work..
> >
> > Running net view on the 98SE boxes produces the following:
> > Error 6118: The computer(s) sharing resources in this workgroup cannot
> > be located.  The computer(s) might have been restarted.  Wait a few
> > minutes, and then try again.  If the problem persists, make sure your
> > network-adapter settings are correct.
> >
> > It was also suggested to run nbtstat -R to reload the networking info
> > for the winder boxes but it didnt seem to help..
> >
> > Well, like I said everything still works except being able to view the
> > network.  I use PMFirewall for my Gateway/IPChains and Masquerading and
> > this of course still works fine.   I can ping all systems by name, IP
> > and they all resolve using a little shareware windows utility called
> > TJPingPro and doing a sequence scan of my internal subnet...
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem.. whether it is a
> > winders problem or soemthing with samba.  I did do an update/upgrade to
> > samba about a week ago, but my backup smb.conf makes no difference and
> > all mapped shares in winders still connect right after I loggin...
> >
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated & TIA
> >
> > Bill Day
> >
> > Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586
> >  11:10am  up 14 days,  1:06,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> >
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