Intermittantly users could not locate their roaming profiles on first login in the morning. Sometimes second login would work sometimes not.
then at random intervals during the day they would lose their drives
the first thing we tried
deadtime = 1
that fixed the login in the morning problem and users seem to be happier (no complaints)
but they were losing their network drives at irregular intervals sometimes reconnecting straight away sometimes not
we changed it to
deadtime =120 and we have not had a complaint about lost drives for 3 days
during the investigations we found that even though win xp had completely logged out (even turned off the maching in one case) the user
was still appearing in smbstatus
This was identified in an article sent to the samb lists about samba not recognising win xp logoffs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316740 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;323582
I havent tried these yet.
but for the users deadtime =120 seems to have assisted
let me know how you go
Alex King wrote:
I'm having the same problems as Daniel Zeiss, hence the message with the same subject!
As is the case with Daniel, I'm having very unsatisfacory performance with Samba as PDC and WinXP (Pro) clients.
Basically, XP machines seem to join the domain OK, but then fall off at random, and tell me that no domain controler is available, without any apparant network activity.
I'm using 2.2.8a, with "normal" encrypted passwords (no LDAP).
I have essentially the same setup at several sites. I'm not the first point of contact at any of the sites, but unfortunately I'm responsible for making samba work at all of them. Access to the sites (and direct experience of the problems as opposed to user reports) is relatively difficult. Also the different sites have different first-port-of-call administrators, and probably very different usage patterns....
At one site ("the good site") there are around 13 XP workstations no other windows machines. I seldom hear of any problems at this site. However I know the administrator here is routinely reinstalls XP (and re-joins the domain) whenever there is a problem.
I've also heard that they sometimes have the "can't log in" problem, and have solved it by re-joining the domain. I'm not sure exactly how frequent this is because I'm not always told.
Historically most of the sites have been on 95/98, and most probably still have a majority of 98 machines, but lately most of them also have a few XP machines as well.
Again I am hamstrung by limited direct experience at these sites, but it appears that the "no domain controler" error happens at these sites too. Usually re-joining the domain solves this issue, but some clients seem not to be able to join the domain at all, or only after repeated attempts.
My setup runs a logon script, which syncs the workstation time and maps certain shares ("NET USE... etc.") according to the user logged in. The scripts are different according to the windows client architecture. Win 95 script looks like:
NET TIME \\SERVER /YES /SET NET USE H: /home NET USE S: \\SERVER\STORAGE NET USE W: \\SERVER\WEBSITE ... (maps 11 drives) WinNT and Win2K scripts are the same: NET TIME \\SERVER /YES /SET NET USE H: \\SERVER\alex NET USE S: \\SERVER\STORAGE NET USE W: \\SERVER\WEBSITE ... (I assume XP appears as the 2K archetecture in the %a samba config variable substitution)
We have a problem with some XP machines which seem to be partially working... they log in but don't run the sripts. They map the home drive as Z, but don't get any further....
I really need to get these problems sorted, if anyone can offer any general debugging advice please feel free. I have tried a few times to go onsite and "sort it once and for all", spending many hours on it searching google etc. but always hitting a brick wall. I've tried increasing the log level, packet dumps etc, but never get anything useful.
Alex
smb.conf follows: # Samba configuration file [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP debug level = 1 # interfaces = eth* ppp* _SAMBATUNLIF_ hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap hide files = AppleVolumes load printers = yes guest account = nobody # invalid users = root security = user server string = %h server (Samba %v) # socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 encrypt passwords = yes smbpasswd file = /etc/smbpasswd wins support = yes os level = 65 domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes logon script = %a\%U.bat logon drive = Z: logon home = "\\%N\%U\profile" logon path = "\\%N\NTPROFILE\%U" dns proxy = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes domain logons = yes unix password sync = false add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g users -s /bin/false %u domain admin group = alex, blair, root
[homes] comment = Home browseable = no read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700
[netlogon] path = /var/shares/netlogon writeable = no guest ok = no
[ntprofile] comment = NT Profiles writable = yes path = /var/shares/ntprofile create mask = 600 directory mask = 700
[website] comment = Web site writeable = yes valid users = @website force group = website path = /var/shares/website create mask = 664 directory mask = 775
[intranet] comment = Intranet writeable = yes valid users = @intranet force group = intranet path = /var/www create mask = 664 directory mask = 775
[storage] comment = Storage writable = no write list = @storage force group = storage path = /extra/storage create mask = 664 directory mask = 775
.... (more shares)
-- Mal
http://mbeaton.id.au:5537/ :wq!
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