Andy, You may find the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf helpful. It's available in book form from Amazon.Com, called "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide."
The HOWTO is available from: httpd://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf You should check the chapters on: Server Types and Security Modes Domain Control Stand-Alone Servers Network Browsing Account Information Integrating MS Windows Networks with Samba Have fun. Cheers, John T. On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a Linux machine to use as a file server for a small group of > windows machines. > > Like many of the folks who write to this list, I'm having all kinds of > difficults getting the Windows machines to be able to access the Linux shares. > > In my case, the most frustrating thing is that all of my Windows machines and > users can access the Linux shares SOMETIMES. But typically, if one computer > accesses the shared folder, and then another one accesses it, the first > computer gets disconnected. > > Does anybody have any insights into why this is happening? > > All of my windows computers have their own unique computer names. And the > usernames that are set up for each machine are different (and match the Unix > names and samba names and passwords that I have on the Linux machine). > > Does this have anything to do with the samba server being the "preferred > master"? And why, when my Linux machine is running, do I so frequently see "logged > off" windows machines in Network Neighborhood. This is something that I never > see when the Linux machine is shut down. It's as if the Linux machine is > taking control of keeping track of who is and who isn't on the network -- and it > doesn't do as good a job of updating compared to the way windows stays current. > > Help would be appreciated. > > Andy Liebman > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba