Winders or Samba problem..

[Matthew Carpenter]

First off, this is a bit confusing.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:54:44 -0400
"William F. Day" <bill at daysdomain.com> wrote:

> 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.  

What?  What is NN?  Do you have any other backups?

> 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.

What is this?  swup?  And what did it do?  Did it change anything
NON-SAMBA related?  If so, what?  If there's a log, please include it.
 
> 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.

This is fuzzy.  Please explain in more detail.  If you feel comfortable,
email me your ruleset off-list.

> 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.

Nothing, as in no changes to Network Neighborhood, right?

> 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...

I don't think you understand what this means.  Using DHCP for WINS means
that your DHCP server hands out the information to contact the WINS
server, not that the workstation will USE the DHCP server as a WINS
server.

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

Good.  Also, please send me some sort of diagram of where these boxes sit
with regards to the firewall(s).  Thanks,
Matt