samba - Mar 2001 - Mult Samba incarnations on aliased IPs

Hi,

Please CC: me in responses.

I'm trying to reduce the number of shares on a machine to less than 13
(currently there are 21 printers shared off it - all networked HP's - I
just want to get rid of that infernal JetDirect junk).

It seems that many of our Win95 clients crash regularly when accessing
printers and I read (somewhere) that DOS (under Win95) can't resolve more
than 13 shares properly (many of the machines run a DOS-based app under
Win95).

This I have proven:
     net view \\samba
returns the typically useful error: "Error:There is more information
available".

Manually specifying the share name to use fixes it - but machines still
crash regularly when attempting to print anything (even Windows apps).

I'm attempting to share the printers across two IP addresses and use the
-s option to smbd to limit access to the shares via either one IP address
or the other.  But there is no go.  Whichever one I run first gets the
shares and the second one to run disappears without ever binding to the
port.

I would use two ethernet cards, but they're out of switch ports as it
is....

Other info:
Samba version 2.0.6 on FreeBSD version 4.0-20000516-STABLE

smb.conf.1 and smb.conf.2 have interfaces set correctly (I believe) and
'bind interfaces only = yes'

smb.conf.1
    interface = 192.168.90.16/24

smb.conf.2
    interface = 192.168.90.25/32

ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.90.16 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.90.255
        inet 192.168.90.25 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.90.25

I have read (from mining the archives) that the second one will fail due
to the broadcast address - is this what is causing my problem and if so,
is it possible to work around (this will be the same even if I put two
ethernet cards in, unless I rearrange half the entire network to change
the network addresses).

--

Regards

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Andrew Johns BSc
Analyst
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

johnsa@kpi.com.au

Member, System Administrators Guild of Australia

NOTE:The above email address will be changing in the near future to
     reflect our new employer.
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Paul Cliff wrote:
> just a thought but do the clients really need all  printers to be
> available ?
> If not you could split the clients into groups giving each group
> a separate smb.conf with only the relevant shares
This is precisely what I am trying to achieve - but in order to do so I
need to be able to run multiple instances of smbd which until today wasn't
working - examining the log.[sn]mb file reveals that the daemon wouldn't
start due to the existence of the /var/run/[sn]mbd.pid file.

Renaming this file fixes the problem and allows me to start up another
daemon, but... from the docs I am unable to choose the name/location of
this pid file :(

Have you got any ideas on how this is achieved (other than modding the
source)?

RE:groups - this setup is for anon printer access in an NT domain using
encrypted passwords - I'm not prepared to go down the path of integrating
user lists/passwords between NT and unix because it is simply not worth
the effort for what I'm trying to achieve (feel free to correct me if you
see a better way).

--

Regards

********************************************************************
Andrew Johns BSc
Analyst
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

johnsa@kpi.com.au

Member, System Administrators Guild of Australia

NOTE:The above email address will be changing in the near future to
     reflect our new employer.
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FreeBSD - The power to serve