Samba Help??

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 13:08, Yicheng Li wrote:

>
> 3. Sometimes windows networks (especially large domains and workgroups)
> take a long time to update and propogate. I've seen instances where it can
> take several hours to update. Sometimes though, I've seen a machine that
> just refuses to show up on the network without any explanation. In that
> case, I've changed the Samba hostname (different than you Linux hostname)
> and finally got it to work.
>
> Hope this helps.
>

this most have been the problem because I was running nmblookup on
machines that weren't showing up then a few hours later (where I'm sure
I didn't do anything significant) they showed up. Weird.

Carl P.


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> >Message: 2
> >From: Carl Parrish <cparrish@cox.net>
> >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >Subject: Samba Help??
> >Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:13:54 -0400
> >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >
> >I let some Window users talk me into rebooting my Linux box to try to fix a
> problem >now my Samba is fubared. I've restarted /usr/bin/smbd and
> /usr/bin/nmbd but now I >can't see any of the window boxes on the network
> anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >
> >Carl P.
> >
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