[Samba] Testing subnets with samba[Scanned]

David Greenhall
2007-01-15T14:03:05Z

OK before i start, this was something i was just testing while everyone was in
training this afternoon. I have never had to deal with subnets before as we only
have a few users, but decided to do a little bit of messing around to gain some
experience.

Basically we have one server (mandriva 2006) running samba, it has two 4 port
ethernet cards in it but only utilitising one port from each card. (10.10.10.1
and 10.10.10.3)
Every machine on the network is using the same subnet mask (255.255.255.0)
All machines are connected using one cisco switch.

What I tried was enabling one of the other ports on the server and giving it the
following details:
IP address: 10.10.10.32
Netmask: 255.255.255.224
Broadcast: 10.10.10.63

After enabling the card, everything seemed ok (I could ping the machine from
mine straight away) However when I changed my network settings (win98) to the
same subnet, samba would not let me login.

The message was  "password expired or logon server refused connection"
I could not login at all until I reset my network settings back to the default
subnet 255.255.25.0.

Would be grateful if anyone could shed some light on this as I don't
understand why I could not login.

Thanks
Dave.