samba - Feb 2004 - Problem with samba on red hat enterprise 3 and windows 2000.

Hello.

I am currently experiencing a very strange problem with
samba on Red HAt Enterprise 3 and windows 2000.  

Everything will work fine and I can access the samba share
from windows and then all of a sudden it will drop and
if I go into linux it wont appear but the service will 
say its running.  This also happens when I reboot windows.
It will take a good 10 minutes for the samba share on the
linux machine to show up on either linux or windows.  Yet
the share on the windows machine is always running no
matter what.

Is there any way to fix this???  Is there a problem with
red hat perhaps???  Have I configured something incorrectly??

Thank you.
ROss Edwards

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Edwards, Ross wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am currently experiencing a very strange problem with
> samba on Red HAt Enterprise 3 and windows 2000.
>
> Everything will work fine and I can access the samba share
> from windows and then all of a sudden it will drop and
> if I go into linux it wont appear but the service will
> say its running.  This also happens when I reboot windows.
> It will take a good 10 minutes for the samba share on the
> linux machine to show up on either linux or windows.  Yet
> the share on the windows machine is always running no
> matter what.
>
> Is there any way to fix this???  Is there a problem with
> red hat perhaps???  Have I configured something incorrectly??
Use WINS! See chapter 10 of the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf (chapter 9 of
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556)

You need to set up a WINS server (either on MS Windows NT4/200x Server or
on Samba). All network clients must use be configured to use that WINS
server.

- John T.
>
> Thank you.
> ROss Edwards
>
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