samba - Jun 2004 - Semaphore Time Expired

I am running Debian 'woody' with Samba 3.0.2 and am having a sparatic 
problem on my network.
Some users will suddenly lose their connections to the samba shares and 
when trying to log in
to the system again will get an error that windows cannot locate their 
roaming profile - "Semaphore time period has expired".
It seems that if they wait for about 15 minutes they can then successfully 
log back in.

Please help. I am not even sure where to start. I have been googling for an 
answer for about a
day and while I have found other people with the same problem, I haven't 
found many solutions.

Derek

At 08:37 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote:
>I am running Debian 'woody' with Samba 3.0.2 and am having a
sparatic
>problem on my network.
>Some users will suddenly lose their connections to the samba shares and 
>when trying to log in
>to the system again will get an error that windows cannot locate their 
>roaming profile - "Semaphore time period has expired".
>It seems that if they wait for about 15 minutes they can then successfully 
>log back in.
>
>Please help. I am not even sure where to start. I have been googling for 
>an answer for about a
>day and while I have found other people with the same problem, I haven't
>found many solutions.
>
>Derek
>
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Well after many many days of banging my head I figured out a way to fix 
these problems.
I am not sure if it is the best way but it seems to have worked well.

I edited the /etc/nsswitch.conf file:

[OLD HOSTS LINE]
hosts:   files dns

[NEW HOSTS LINE]
hosts: files

Taking out the dns worked. Since I am running a small network that does not 
span mutliple
sub-nets I do not use DNS to resolve hostnames.  For some reason Samba 
3.0.2a didn't
like it when DNS couldn't resolve an IP into a host name.

Hope this helps someone.

Derek