[Gllug] GLLUG:Samba

[Davies Sue]

It probably is down to the master browser, I've found out that we are having
a large number of elections each day. He's definitely on the same subnet,
however even though his machine is similar make/model/build it is very, very
slow (unlike the rest of us he still has a netware client running), perhaps
that's not helping either.  I've got everyone else working quite happily.
All I have to do now is sort out the password authentication properly.
Seeing as they wanted it in a hurry up I created the user accounts and they
put in their usual passwords. Now they have it and have seen it work I will
have the time to sit down and properly read my books well after a rebuild of
the bosses machine perhaps.

Thanks

Sue

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at framestore.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:47 AM
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] GLLUG:Samba


On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 09:15, Davies Sue wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> it.  However I have one user, unfortunately he's my boss (it's always the
> way) who is having trouble connecting.  Finally yesterday we managed to
get
> him sorted out yesterday and all was well.  This morning I had to come in
> early and reboot, having given the machine apoplexy yesterday, when the
boss
> got in and logged in he can't pick up the share.  He's being prompted for
a
> username and password, when he supplies both it says he's unknown.  I
would
> really appreciate any help Ive been wading thru all the project
> documentation and other stuff I can find but I'm at a loss. 
> 
I'm going to stick my neck out here.
This does not sound like a Samba problem to me -
more a problem with a local Master Browser.
Is your boss perchance on a different subnet from the others?
If so, there might have been a master browser election and he's picking
up a misconfigured one, or something.

I was reading something about this only yesterday - on the NT Resource 
Kit there are some utilities for monitoring master browsers - sorry
I can't remember the names.

By the way, I'm saying this as we recently had a similar problem -
a new Win 2K box was put on our subnet. All domain logins disappeared
mysteriously. My colleague rebooted his older PC and all was OK -
my guess is that this caused a fresh election, and said PC won.


Sorry to all if I am talking absolute twaddle as usual.


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