Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 18:55:12 +0100 From: "Wout de Jong" <woutdejong@yahoo.com> To: <samba@samba.org> Subject: samba & dns Hello, I encountered the following problem: First I installed samba-server (1.9.18, supplied with Red Hat 5.2) and everything worked fine. Then I added a DNS (named) at the same machine, just as an experiment. Now samba became unfriendly. The DNS seems to perform very well (nslookup), so I guess nothing is wrong with /etc/resolv.conf. Also, no other smbds have been started. Then I performed the 10 tests. On test 3 I got the "unfriendly" message. Testparm didn't find any errors. Nmblookup also reported no errors."smbclient '\\<server>\<dir>'" failed, as did "net view \\<server>" and "net use x: \\<server>\<dir>". (Error 54: "The network is currently busy processing other requests or is out of resources. Try again later, or verify your network configuration to be sure that enough network resources are specified.") If a connection had been established before named was started, then I could access my share without problems. (???) It's a DNS problem. If Samba can't do a reverse lookup on your client, it generates an Error 54. I'm no expert, but fixing DNS fixed that problem for me. Patrick