samba - Aug 2003 - Can't Access Samba Shares After Recent Windows Update (msblast)

Hello,

I have been running Samba for years with no problems... I recently became
the victim of the MSBLAST worm and I ran Windows Update to fix the hole in
RPC. That was Tuesday. Yesterday, Thursday, I needed to move some files over
to my Linux server and as I usually do, I went to My Network Places ->
Computers Near Me in W2K and could no longer see my Linux server.

I restarted Samba and tried again with no luck. I had an SSH connection open
to the machine so I new the network was functioning. I tried to map a drive
to the machine by ip address and it still failed. I've tried everything I
can think of to get it working, but still haven't had any luck.

My Samba configuration is from July 24 and hasn't been changed since I added
inherit permissions on a share. Is this a case of MS making another attack
on Samba or am I missing something?

I'm using samba-2.2.7a on RH9 with security mode share.

Thanks for any ideas or help,

Cameron

Cameron:  I noticed the same thing after updating the Win2K partition on 
my dual-boot laptop.  I found this in the e-mail from LogWatch on the 
server today:

nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_local_master_announce(312)  
process_local_master_announce: Server LAPDANCE-W2K at
IP 192.168.1.13 is announcing itself as a local master browser for 
workgroup HOUSE and we think we are master. Forcing
election.


I had never seen this before, so I'm assuming it may have something 
to do with the problem, and will be looking into it further...it was 
nearly midnight when I noticed that the laptop couldn't find the server.

The server is running the latest RedHat Samba update for 7.3 
(2.2.7-3.7.3).

-- Bob --


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Cameron B. Prince wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been running Samba for years with no problems... I recently became
> the victim of the MSBLAST worm and I ran Windows Update to fix the hole in
> RPC. That was Tuesday. Yesterday, Thursday, I needed to move some files
over
> to my Linux server and as I usually do, I went to My Network Places ->
> Computers Near Me in W2K and could no longer see my Linux server.
> 
> I restarted Samba and tried again with no luck. I had an SSH connection
open
> to the machine so I new the network was functioning. I tried to map a drive
> to the machine by ip address and it still failed. I've tried everything
I
> can think of to get it working, but still haven't had any luck.
> 
> My Samba configuration is from July 24 and hasn't been changed since I
added
> inherit permissions on a share. Is this a case of MS making another attack
> on Samba or am I missing something?
> 
> I'm using samba-2.2.7a on RH9 with security mode share.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas or help,
> 
> Cameron
> 
> 
-- 
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http://www.malibyte.net

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