Hello,
I have two samba servers setup on a test network. One is the PDC and
the 2nd server is just sharing files. I can open up files on the PDC
share like an access database file and it will run forever. When I try
and run the same file off of the other samba server on the network it
runs for 10 min just fine and then Samba will just drop the connection
to the file. It no longer appears in the Open Files list and I get an
error from Access saying there was a "Disk or Network Error". Just
like if Samba had been shutdown.
I have the 2nd server configured to look at the PDC as its password
server and all authentication on the PDC is taking place via LDAP for
users. I just did a test with the 2nd server and added myself as a
local user to that machine and stopped using LDAP for authentication to
the PDC. I shut down Samba and the PDC and just authenticated from
win95 to the 2nd server and ran the test again and Samba doesn't drop
the connection like it did if I had the authentication to LDAP and the
PDC up and running. Basically the only way I can get it to work
correctly is if that 2nd Server is the only Samba server running and no
LDAP lookups are being done. If anyone has seen or heard of this
problem please let me know. Right now I am thinking that Samba 2.2.3a
just doesn't play nice with 2 servers on the same network with one of
them a PDC and LDAP and the other trying to use the PDC to
authenticate. Anyways... please let me know if you can help.
matt lung
