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Hi there, I just playing around at the moment with the idea of putting in a DHCP server alongside my Samba stuff. On my test server I'm having problems seeing the client machines (test 4 or 5) in the DIAGNOSIS readme. The server can see the clients as the general name search works and returns the IP of the clients. I think it's something to do with the DNS and WINS not wanting to

This is a bit off topic, however it's related to a samba based network... I've got a small network (10 users) running samba on a Linux box with a HP network printer. This is working so well, that the only network problems that I have are with printers other printers "shared" by Win 95. Therefore: I was planning to turn an old 486 with an 80M HDD into a print server, however the

Hi! After more work on the oplock_break problem, I've found the following in my tcpdump-smb logging. It seems that when ost5 (pid=26339 in the logs that follow) requests access to the oplocked file comm.inf from ost6 (pid=5872) the oplock_break failes (this is NOT isolated to any one or two systems on our network, just using these two as an example, and the server reports no dropped packets