samba - Sep 1997 - Logon problems

Hi.

Very often we have problem with our samba-server. All the users are unable
to logon to it. The error message is "No domain server is
available...." If
we runs nmblookup -S "sambaservername" at the samba-server when we
have
this problem we receives the message:
Looking up status of 0.0.0.0

If we kills and starts the nmbd process everything is OK for a while and
the nmblookup returns the server's ip-adress and the netbios and
workgroup-name.

The samba versin is 1.9.17p1, the machine is a HP D350 running HP-UX 10.20.
The important part of the smb.conf file looks like this:
  domain master = yes
  local master = yes
  preferred master = yes
  domain logons = yes
  logon script = logon.bat
  os level = 255
  security = user

Can anyone help me with this problem.

Thanks
Odd Arne Hauge
Computer Engineer
Molde College

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Odd Arne Hauge wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Very often we have problem with our samba-server. All the users are unable
> to logon to it. The error message is "No domain server is
available...." If
> we runs nmblookup -S "sambaservername" at the samba-server when
we have
> this problem we receives the message:
> Looking up status of 0.0.0.0
there is a bug in 1.9.16p1 or so, which gets 0.0.0.0 into the wins.dat 
file, which is a bad idea.
> 
> The samba versin is 1.9.17p1, the machine is a HP D350 running HP-UX 10.20.
> The important part of the smb.conf file looks like this:
>   domain master = yes
>   local master = yes
>   preferred master = yes
>   domain logons = yes
>   logon script = logon.bat
>   os level = 255
>   security = user
> 
> Can anyone help me with this problem.
yes.

terminate nmbd, delete the var/locks/wins.dat file, and restart nmbd.  if 
the problem persists, contact me.  (take 2 of these, daily...)

luke


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
"Deal with difficult problems while they are still easy"