[Wolves] Network problems

Mark Ellse me at chaseacademy.com
Fri Jan 7 09:00:02 GMT 2005


Dear Woo,

> But there will never be any automatic failover, even if it might have 
> worked occasionally. I'd have at least two and make sure everyone who 
> might ever use the room knows which they are. They should preferably be 
> the ones that you would naturally switch on first and off last.
> 
> Put Samba on at least one of your boxes even if you don't use it. It has 
> much better diagnostics about who  the other nodes currently think is in 
> charge. This should at least reduce the number of PCs you have to reboot 
> to get everything working properly.
> 
> Don't let the Samba config files intimidate you. It is easy if you stick 
> to the basics. I think I changed about 4 lines.

Thanks for this. Good advice. No, I shan't be intimidated by the config 
file. I'll let you know how I get on.

Mark




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