samba - Nov 2001 - Plea for help: Windows/Linux interoperability diffculties

Everyone,

	I'm at the last straw. For at least 5 to 6 months I have tried to
get Samba 2.0.6 and Samba 2.0.7 to interoperate with Windows 98, with only
partial success. Whenever a Windows machine does an SMB query of the master
browser on my network, it takes an abysmally long time to respond. Whenever
a Windows machine attempts to print, it becomes unstable and starts crashing.
I'm attaching my smb.conf file for review.

Thanks,

Brad

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You sound desperate so I'll throw in my simple thoughts.
How many machines are on your network. Do all windows clients have the same
trouble ? 
Why not try upgrading to the current version of samba?
You have a somewhat  complicated smb.conf file. What happens when you use a much
simpler smb.conf file? For most situation, the defaults work fine.
Why do are you using the max connections option ?
Why do you have a PRINTER$ share as well as a specific share for your laser
printer?
Why do you have BSD printing? My RH box 7.1 uses LPRng.
Can the linux server print to the printer ?
You have log level of 3. What does the log show you when things are going
wrong?
Joel


On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 04:44:37AM -0800, Brad Chapman
wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> 	I'm at the last straw. For at least 5 to 6 months I have tried to
> get Samba 2.0.6 and Samba 2.0.7 to interoperate with Windows 98, with only
> partial success. Whenever a Windows machine does an SMB query of the master
> browser on my network, it takes an abysmally long time to respond. Whenever
> a Windows machine attempts to print, it becomes unstable and starts
crashing.
> I'm attaching my smb.conf file for review.

Brad Chapman wrote:
> 
> Everyone,
> 
>         I'm at the last straw. For at least 5 to 6 months I have tried
to
> get Samba 2.0.6 and Samba 2.0.7 to interoperate with Windows 98, with only
> partial success. Whenever a Windows machine does an SMB query of the master
> browser on my network, it takes an abysmally long time to respond. Whenever
> a Windows machine attempts to print, it becomes unstable and starts
crashing.
> I'm attaching my smb.conf file for review.
How much memory does this machine have and how many connections is it
supporting?
If you run "top" during normal operation, what kind of memory/swapfile
usage do
you see? What kind of CPU statistics?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technology
http://www.potentialtech.com

Hi Brad,

Comparing your conf to mine, I see that you have not appended your Global 
interfaces ip address with a netmask i.e. 192.168.1.105/24.

You may want to try that.  You also have a deny all option set.  Is this not 
contradictary?

I'm afraid this is all I have to offer buddy.

Good luck,

Phil



On Sunday 04 November 2001 07:44 am, Brad Chapman wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> 	I'm at the last straw. For at least 5 to 6 months I have tried to
> get Samba 2.0.6 and Samba 2.0.7 to interoperate with Windows 98, with only
> partial success. Whenever a Windows machine does an SMB query of the master
> browser on my network, it takes an abysmally long time to respond. Whenever
> a Windows machine attempts to print, it becomes unstable and starts
> crashing. I'm attaching my smb.conf file for review.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
> ====> Brad Chapman
>
> Permanent e-mails: kakadu_croc@yahoo.com
> 		   jabiru_croc@yahoo.com
> Alternate e-mails: kakadu@adelphia.net
> 		   kakadu@netscape.net
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Find a job, post your resume.
> http://careers.yahoo.com