On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 18:44, A. Rick Anderson wrote: > Ever since I upgraded my machine from FC2 to FC3, I've been having > network issues. In the course of debugging problems with my samba > shares, I discovered that named.conf had been swapped out. Switching > the file names back seems to have resolved the samba shares problem. > I'm not sure that issues related to it operating as a PDC have been > resolved. > > After my FC3 machine is up for 15 to 30 minutes, all the connected Win2k > resources start failing. The various PC's no longer can access each > other's shares, including shared printers. If a user attempts to log > into one of the machines, if the user hasn't already logged in on that > particular machine, she will get a message saying that the domain is not > available. If you try to access one of the shares, it will present you > with an authentication dialog box, but you will fail every time. Sounds like your linux system is fighting with another domain controller. If you want samba to win the election to become browser master you need to set the os level parameter to 32 or higher. I believe it defaults to 20. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Kraus
