Hi I've seen a couple of people post this problem, but I've never seen an answer, and now it's happenning to me. I run Solaris 2.5.1, and samba-1.9.17p1. Every so often a pc can look in the network neighborhood and the samba server just isn't there, though you can still map a network drive by using a UNC pathway: \\server\share so the share is still out there but the server dissapears every so often. Any clues would be much appreciated. Iain ps What is the equiv of samba for macintoshes if there is one?? -- Iain Gray Systems Officer Strangeways Research Laboratories Tel 01223 740176 email: iain.gray@srl.cam.ac.uk
Ian,> I've seen a couple of people post this problem, but I've never seen an > answer, and now it's happenning to me. > > I run Solaris 2.5.1, and samba-1.9.17p1.First suggestion would be to upgrade to 1.9.18p4. Your problem may disappear.> Every so often a pc can look in the network neighborhood and the samba > server just isn't there, though you can still map a network drive by > using a UNC pathway: > > \\server\share > > so the share is still out there but the server dissapears every so > often.Would you describe the structure of your network? It sounds like you've got a problem syncronizing local master browsers on a multiple-subnet IP network. Of course, if your network is all in one subnet this can't be the problem :)> Any clues would be much appreciated. > > Iain > > ps What is the equiv of samba for macintoshes if there is one??Netatalk. Runs on Linux and Solaris. I highly recommend it. -john. --------------------------------------------------------------------- John D. Blair (sys|net)admin, the university computer center mailto:jdblair@uab.edu u. of alabama at birmingham phoneto:(205) 975-7123 (my other car is a cdr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Iain Gray wrote:> I run Solaris 2.5.1, and samba-1.9.17p1. > > Every so often a pc can look in the network neighborhood and the samba > server just isn't there, though you can still map a network drive by > using a UNC pathway: > > \\server\share > > so the share is still out there but the server dissapears every so > often. >Upgrade to 1.9.18p4 - nmbd was completely re-written for the 1.9.18 release (it works better). Also there is a security issue with 1.9.17p1 that urgently requires you to upgrade !> ps What is the equiv of samba for macintoshes if there is one?? >A SMB client for Macs is 'Dave' from thursby systems. (www.thursby.com). Hope this helps, Jeremy Allison. Samba Team. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. --------------------------------------------------------
Hi
I also had this problem - but this problem also accurs when using ONLY
win95 clients on a network. (Actually a friend of mine connected TWO Pc's
with an ethernet - and it took 10-20 minutes or so from starting the
second pc until both pc's could see each other when browsing the net...)
I solved this problem when using samba by adding
preferred master = yes
local master = yes
domain master = yes (no - i'm NOT using domain-controlling)
os level = 255
wins support = yes
to my smb.conf, and by adding the samba-server as the primary wins-server
to all my clients.
Hope this helps
greetings, fgp
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