Strebel, Franz R.
2005-Nov-15 08:56 UTC
[Samba] is this a DNS resolution problem ? bad news
>From what I know, if your PDC is on a different subnet, thenthe PCs won't be able to see it. This is a limitation of netbios and is addressed by having a WINS server. I haven't followed your problem entirely but I suppose that now that your server has 2 interfaces, it is able to listen to another subnet and can therefore address requests received there. As for the loopback interface, it is useful for testing if samba is working from the server itself via smbclient -L localhost for example. Regards, Franz
Hi, It seems that no one cares about this problem, but it's a very pregnant problem. I explain the problem again : if the PDC is listenning on only one interface, everything works good. If I configure it to listen on all its interfaces, it works well if it listens on the loopback interface. It has worked well yesterday, for example, but I need a good network configuration on the client side (Netbios over TCP/IP enabled, uptodate DNS datas on the DNS server, no need of a WINS server...). This morning, it's impossible to join new computers to the domain. I restarted SMBD and NMBD ; still impossible. I rebooted the server, and restarted the services : everything is ok. What's happening ? It seems that there is too much smbd processes listenning. How to limit these ? Thanks a lot for any answer, Val?ry