Samba 2.2.4 Question

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Thu May 16 13:23:26 EDT 2002


OK Thanks
Thats my next step, just wondering if anyone had experienced it. I used
2.0.7 for a while, was real stable. I tried 2.2.3 but I was having
problems with 2000 clients. 2.2.4 is working really well, other than
this, minor issue.

Justin

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 12:06, Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> Justin,
> 
> I think the group doesn't have the Samba experience for this one.  I'm using 
> 2.0.7 at work, have 2.2.4 built, but not installed.  My setup is far less 
> complex, too.  The good news is that when I posted questions to the Samba mailing 
> list, the responses were quick and accurate!
> 
> I know this doesn't help, but you're not being ignored.
> -Greg
> > I don't know how many of you may be running samba in a production
> > environment. I have this on a redhat list and maybe asking in on a samba
> > list shortly. Just figured one of you may have experienced a similar
> > problem...
> > 
> > Here Goes (What I posted to Redhat 7.3 List):
> > 
> > Ok, This is a samba issue, and may get better results from a samba list
> > but I'm going to try here first. I installed the new samba 2.2.4 from
> > RPM on (Redhat) 7.3. My homes are automounted to /home from
> > NIS/Automounter/NFS
> > trio. Then the users homes are setup like /home/jbennett when the actual
> > directory may be /export/home/jbennett, or actually on another machine.
> > It works fine when you startup samba. However if I make a change to
> > smb.conf (it updates every minute or so) like to add a share or printer,
> > I am also playing with domain logins (Am using Solaris PCNetlink), after
> > I write any changes to the file any new attempts to mount a home (mostly
> > when NT clients need to be rebooted) the home will not map. I get an
> > NT_BAD_NETWORK_NAME or something like that (when I try using
> > smbclient).Existing connections to the share however are still working.
> > Just new shares. It's like it gets unbound from NIS. My Samba server is
> > also the NIS server and bound to himself (althouh it was bound to the
> > Solaris PCNetlink box, which until recently was the master, and it did
> > the same). Any one else experience this? Does it do this on 2.2.3a? When
> > I restart samba it works again. Don't really want to do that during the
> > day so, in order to get around it I needed to create a share definition
> > for every home that needed to be remapped, without restarting samba.
> > 
> > [jbennett]
> > writable = yes
> > valid users = jbennett
> > browseable = no
> > path = /home/jbennett
> > create mode = 0664
> > directory mode = 0775
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
> > 
> > -- 
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Justin Bennett
> > Red Hat Certified Engineer
> > Network Administrator
> > Dynabrade Inc.
> > 8989 Sheridan Dr
> > Clarence, NY 14031
> > 716-631-0100 ext 215
> 
> 
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Justin Bennett
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Network Administrator
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Clarence, NY 14031
716-631-0100 ext 215


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