On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, James Kreuziger wrote:
> With that being said, I'm having problems with my > Samba PDC. I'm running Samba 2.2.8a on a Solaris 8 > box. We have recently moved our lab from one > facilty to another, which forced us to change all > of our system names and IP's. Luckily, only the > domain part of the name changed, as well as the IP's. > > I updated the smb.conf to reflect the new subnet and IP's. However, > I have recently noticed that people are getting alot of > "Domain LABDOM is unavailable" messages when trying to > logon from Win2k. This may last anywhere from 2 minutes to 30 > minutes. Then, for no apparent reason, they will be able to logon. What about a broken cable, a defect switch port, a loose NIC ? These things may work for some time and suddenly stop or the other way round. You could take a laptop and try to track down the weak point in your lan . Regards, Uli. > > I'm thinking that it has to do with my hosts allow and > hosts deny settings. Before the move, we were on a subnet > with a netmask setting of 255.255.255.0. So my hosts allow > setting were this (IP's have been changed to protect the innocent): > > hosts allow = 10.0.33. 127.0.0.1 > host deny = ALL EXCEPT 10.0.33. 127.0.0.1 > > We are now on a much more restricted subnet, and > can't have the full range to ourselves. Consequently, > our subnet mask is now 255.255.255.224, and the IP > address space is from 10.0.236.38 - 10.0.236.61 > (this takes into account the network devices). > > I'm wondering if my problem is related to this. > I'm thinking that that I should restrict my hosts > allow with the network/netmask combo: > > hosts allow = 10.0.236.32/255.255.255.224 > > Is this what I'm looking for? I've included the > global part of my conf below. > > Thanks, > > -Jim > > ************************************************* > Jim Kreuziger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************* > > [global] > workgroup = LABDOM > preexec = csh -c `echo /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient \ > -M %m -I %I` & > server string = Samba %v on (%L) > security = user > domain logons = yes > domain admin group = @domadm > encrypt passwords = Yes > password level = 3 > log level = 2 > log file = /samba/current/var/log.smbd.%m > max log size = 2000 > wins support = Yes > name resolve order = lmhosts wins hosts bcast > dns proxy = yes > deadtime = 0 > keepalive = 3600 > client code page = 437 > os level = 65 > preferred master = Yes > domain master = Yes > guest account = samba > invalid users = daemon bin sys lp smtp uucp nuucp listen dcs consult dumper > nobody > hosts allow = 10.0.236. 10.0.33. 10.0.126. 127.0.0.1 > hosts deny = ALL EXCEPT 10.0.236. 10.0.33. 10.0.126. 127.0.0.1 > veto oplock files = /*.mdb/*.dbm/*.doc/*.xls > socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY > getwd cache = yes > logon script = %U.bat > logon path = \\ralopib\profile\%U > remote announce = 10.0.126.208/IMHH > utmp = True > username map = /samba/current/lib/usermap.txt > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba