On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:11 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Tue April 15 2008, Tim wrote: > > 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). > > > > There's lots to think about there, but, some things are defied by the > successful PCLinuxOS live CD experiment on the adjacent box. But, putting all > this aside, things seem to be somewhat working now except for the mount > problem, which is a separate issue. I've been poking into that and it is > obviously not related because I can't even mount a plain old NTFS USB drive > right now - my Konqueror window appears, but totally frozen with a partial > draw... > > > 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. > > > > Wireless and wired are on the same net/subnet - all DHCP is handled by the > Linksys router > > > 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. > > > > The one that works follows: > cat smb.conf > ---- you don't actually expect people to parse that do you? testparm -s > /tmp/smb.conf.txt and upload that or.. grep -v '#' /etc/samba/smb.conf | grep -v ';' > /tmp/smb.conf.txt But I'm telling you that if you can't reliably ping and nmblookup (which is somewhat similar to a ping), you're wasting your time here. Craig
