[SLUG] Samba Headaches

[Phil Kershaw]

Hi Rob,

Good to see someone else from the education world. I work in a secondary
school and use samba mainly for backups for a small group of users. Our
main file server is NT4. Samba seemed to install straight out of the box
for me and once the logon script was correct all was ok.

Have you had a look in the samba log files in /var/log/samba on redhat
9. May be something there. 

If things have been slow when I have been setting servers up on our
network it has usually been a dns issue. Is samba trying to resolve
netbios names using dns? Although why this should be different for XP
clients I don't know.

Win98 clients use encrypted passwords but if this was wrong they would
not be able to log on at all.

Not a lot of help I know but maybe something to point you in another
direction. If it helps I can always send you our smb.conf file for you
to compare with yours.

Regards

Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: scarborough-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:scarborough-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Rob Hall
Sent: 20 September 2004 17:45
To: Scarborough Linux User Group
Subject: [SLUG] Samba Headaches


Hi folks,

My first posting to this group so a small intro probably in order. My
name is 
Rob and I'm a technician at a college here in N. Yorks. We are running a

stunning total of 0 Linux boxes (at the moment!) but I have been using
Linux 
as a desktop user for a number of years. Lovely OS! 

I was asked recently to help set up a really simple file server using
Redhat 
FC2 on a Dell Poweredge which went pretty smoothly. We had some problems

though getting the XP and 98 clients to remember the mapped drives we
had set 
up on them. After a lot of headscratching and umming I realised that the

workgroup name had a space in it and was causing all sorts of hassle
(not my 
choice of name I hasten to add) I changed it to an 8 letter name and all

seems to be well for the XP clients. However, the 98 clients take
forever to 
see the mapped drives. They eventually get there after a couple of
minutes 
but this is causing real bother.

Any ideas why 98 clients could be doing this?

TIA

Rob