Hello! I am new to the samba list, and am fairly new
to samba (less than 4 months). I have an interesting
samba problem that has me up against a wall at
the moment.
We have a handful of Solaris (2.7) boxes and a handful of
NT boxes attached to a hub. We have samba installed
on four of the Solaris boxes so that we can easily access
them from the NT boxes without having to map the drives.
Up until yesterday afternoon, everything had worked just fine.
A couple of the NT boxes (physically located in
another room) lost access to the other NT boxes
and the Solaris boxes. All the network & LAN settings
appear to be sound (and were unchanged prior). All
the NT boxes now cannot see any of the Solaris boxes
unless I map the drives.
All the unix boxes can "see" (ssh, ftp, etc.) the
NT boxes and vice versa, and I'm able to map drives
from the Solaris boxes on most of the NT boxes
with no problem. I've also ran several of the tests
according to the Diagnosing Samba page, and I
received "System error 53 has occurred" when running
"net use" from a given NT box.
I've tried shutting down & restarting samba on
a few of the Solaris boxes, but NT still cannot
"see" them (unless I map a drive). I've
tried rebooting one of the NT boxes, but still
no change: Same case with one of the Solaris
boxes (including starting up samba).
I haven't tried to reinstall Samba yet because I
would find it hard to believe that four boxes
suddenly "lost" their connection. The hub appears
to be running, with no bad ports I know of.
One other note: We experienced a power outage over
the weekend where all boxes wound up being rebooted
(yes, I know...get a UPS!;-), but connnections were
restored, so I don't believe we have a hardware issue.
Anyone have any ideas? If so, please email me at
jwood@webontap.com. I kindly thank you in advance.
John J.Wood
UNIX System Administrator
WebOnTap, Inc.
Newton, MA
jwood@webontap.com
