samba - Jul 1998 - HELP -- upgrade to 1.9.18p8 causing print/disk trouble ...

I recently upgraded all our site's samba servers to 1.9.18p8, and I seem to 
be having many strange problems where they didn't exist before. I
haven't
made any changes to smb.conf.

The biggest trouble I seem to have is that people can no longer access 
printers ... NT/95 just gives a generic "path to server not available"
message.  Some nodes even have trouble connecting to shares.  When the 
PC's browse the network, then can see the server just fine, but often 
cannot browse any shares on the server.  Rebooting the PC doesn't help.

I've found that if I configure the WINS services on the PC's, the
trouble
often goes away.  On NT I set "use DNS for WINS resolution". Once WINS
is
properly configured, the PC seems to work fine. smbclient from any 
machine on the network, and on other subnets has no trouble connecting to 
the samba services at all.

I've never had to use WINS services before on my local PC's .... but I
set
the samba server up (a long while ago) to serve WINS anyway just in case
people needed it.  Now, it looks as if the PC's won't work at all unless
WINS services are enabled. 

The [global] section of my smb.conf appears below .... any pointers/help 
would be appreciated.  If I cannot solve this issue soon, I'll have to 
back the server upgrade out and continue running older versions.

Thanks,

-- jim

(IP of this server is 192.168.45.20)

[global]
   deadtime = 10
   domain master = yes
   encrypt passwords = yes
   guest account = nobody
   load printers = yes
   log file = /usr/local/samba/var/logs/log.%m
   null passwords = no
   os level = 60
   preferred master = yes
   printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap
   printing = sysv
   remote announce = 192.168.166.255/ABLAB 192.168.112.255/ASTLAB 
192.168.45.255/ABLAB
   remote browse sync = 192.168.166.100 192.168.112.18
   security = user
   server string = ablab server
   share modes = no
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
   strict locking = no
   time server = true
   username map = /usr/local/samba/private/mapnames
   wins proxy = yes
   wins support = yes
   workgroup = ABLAB

I've confirmed that our 1.9.18p8 master samba server is indeed having some
sort of problem on our network. On my personal PC, if I disable WINS, I
cannot connect to any shares or printers on this server at all. If I
enable WINS, it all works fine. 

Has anyone else seen similar behavior?  I was previously running 1.9.18p4
without any trouble .... then I upgraded and a whole slew of PC's suddenly
couldn't connect to the server any longer. What's even stranger is that
I
upgraded 4 server with the same exact binaries ... the other three server
authenticate against the master server and have similar configurations. 
If WINS isn't set on a PC, they can still get to the other slave servers
just fine, but the master server refuses all connections to that PC. 

Any thoughts?

-- jim


On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jim Farrell wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded all our site's samba servers to 1.9.18p8, and I
seem to
> be having many strange problems where they didn't exist before. I
haven't
> made any changes to smb.conf.
> 
> The biggest trouble I seem to have is that people can no longer access 
> printers ... NT/95 just gives a generic "path to server not
available"
> message.  Some nodes even have trouble connecting to shares.  When the 
> PC's browse the network, then can see the server just fine, but often 
> cannot browse any shares on the server.  Rebooting the PC doesn't help.
> 
> I've found that if I configure the WINS services on the PC's, the
trouble
> often goes away.  On NT I set "use DNS for WINS resolution". Once
WINS is
> properly configured, the PC seems to work fine. smbclient from any 
> machine on the network, and on other subnets has no trouble connecting to 
> the samba services at all.
> 
> I've never had to use WINS services before on my local PC's ....
but I set
> the samba server up (a long while ago) to serve WINS anyway just in case
> people needed it.  Now, it looks as if the PC's won't work at all
unless
> WINS services are enabled. 
> 
> The [global] section of my smb.conf appears below .... any pointers/help 
> would be appreciated.  If I cannot solve this issue soon, I'll have to 
> back the server upgrade out and continue running older versions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- jim
> 
> (IP of this server is 192.168.45.20)
> 
> [global]
>    deadtime = 10
>    domain master = yes
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    guest account = nobody
>    load printers = yes
>    log file = /usr/local/samba/var/logs/log.%m
>    null passwords = no
>    os level = 60
>    preferred master = yes
>    printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap
>    printing = sysv
>    remote announce = 192.168.166.255/ABLAB 192.168.112.255/ASTLAB 
> 192.168.45.255/ABLAB
>    remote browse sync = 192.168.166.100 192.168.112.18
>    security = user
>    server string = ablab server
>    share modes = no
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>    strict locking = no
>    time server = true
>    username map = /usr/local/samba/private/mapnames
>    wins proxy = yes
>    wins support = yes
>    workgroup = ABLAB
>

Jim,

This really is more appropriate for the main samba mailing list.  I have
cc'd this message there.




j-
________________________________________________________________________
                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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Subject: HELP -- upgrade to 1.9.18p8 causing print/disk trouble ...
   Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 02:02:26 +1000
   From: Jim Farrell <jwf@platinum.com>


I recently upgraded all our site's samba servers to 1.9.18p8, and I seem
to 
be having many strange problems where they didn't exist before. I
haven't 
made any changes to smb.conf.

The biggest trouble I seem to have is that people can no longer access 
printers ... NT/95 just gives a generic "path to server not available"
message.  Some nodes even have trouble connecting to shares.  When the 
PC's browse the network, then can see the server just fine, but often 
cannot browse any shares on the server.  Rebooting the PC doesn't help.

I've found that if I configure the WINS services on the PC's, the
trouble
often goes away.  On NT I set "use DNS for WINS resolution". Once WINS
is
properly configured, the PC seems to work fine. smbclient from any 
machine on the network, and on other subnets has no trouble connecting
to 
the samba services at all.

I've never had to use WINS services before on my local PC's .... but I
set
the samba server up (a long while ago) to serve WINS anyway just in case
people needed it.  Now, it looks as if the PC's won't work at all unless
WINS services are enabled. 

The [global] section of my smb.conf appears below .... any pointers/help 
would be appreciated.  If I cannot solve this issue soon, I'll have to 
back the server upgrade out and continue running older versions.

Thanks,

-- jim

(IP of this server is 192.168.45.20)

[global]
   deadtime = 10
   domain master = yes
   encrypt passwords = yes
   guest account = nobody
   load printers = yes
   log file = /usr/local/samba/var/logs/log.%m
   null passwords = no
   os level = 60
   preferred master = yes
   printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap
   printing = sysv
   remote announce = 192.168.166.255/ABLAB 192.168.112.255/ASTLAB 
192.168.45.255/ABLAB
   remote browse sync = 192.168.166.100 192.168.112.18
   security = user
   server string = ablab server
   share modes = no
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
   strict locking = no
   time server = true
   username map = /usr/local/samba/private/mapnames
   wins proxy = yes
   wins support = yes
   workgroup = ABLAB