On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:10 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > I've noticed that sometimes, changes you make to Samba networking > don't 'take' instantly, even when you restart smb and nmb services That's the nature of the beast. Changes don't happen instantly, and changes invoke another contest round for who gets to be the master, which can introduce a lot of delays. Dynamic DNS will make things worse (DHCP that doles out the same IPs to the same machines should be the same as static IPs). Watching a friend's all-XP network, over a number of years, has shown me that SMB doesn't work any better in its native environment (frequent breakdowns in traffic part way through use, unable to see other computers on the network, etc.). As I've been watching this thread, name resolution sprang to mind as the first thing: What method is used (hosts, DNS, lmhosts) in which order, and whether they have the answer. And SELinux booleans related to Samba. But being unable to ping some machines sounded like more basic networking issues at hand (hint: make use of the audio options of the ping command - if you're working on the network throughout the house, you can hear the results of behind the desk, or in the next room, cable fumbling when you can't see the screen). Elsewhere in your responses you commented about the topology of your network, and I'm wondering if you're trying to work across what's really more than one subnet, while treating it as if it's all one subnet. That rather depends on how your wireless set-up is set up. We're yet to see your smb.conf files. You should probably post both the problem one, and the one that used to work fine for you. It's been ages since I've bothered with Samba. But I used to on a network with fixed and dynamic IPs. That had an integrated DNS server that resolved all internal addresses correctly, and no computers had their hostname or domain name on the 127.0.0.1 line in the hosts file. All computers were on the same physical subnet. All Samba configurations in the same workgroup (a single all-upper-case word). One machine set to be the master browser, WINS server, and DNS proxy for them rest. Others deliberately configured not to be masters. Samba "hosts allow" set to the network address (192.168.1.), likewise for "interfaces = 192.168.1.2/24", remote browse sync and remote announce addresses set appropriately, name resolve order = host wins lmhosts bcast. And that generally worked fine across several different Linuxes and Windows releases. I got mine working looking through man smb.conf and the smb.conf file as originally installed. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
