we have been trying to move our samba box to a faster server, with better NICs, faster processor and more memory.
both the old and new server are using samba 3.0.14A both on debian based distributions (old was sarge, new is breezy) here are the steps we followed: install samba from the apt archives. confermed that they were the same version. copied smb.conf from old server to new server. changed domain name, or work group = domain2 as well as netbios name changed the paths to shares because the disk partitioning is slightly different. added a machine account to use as a testing machine, added a user name to the smbpasswd file, we know how to do this because we did it all the time on the other server. logged in, fixed some minor issues with home directories not mounting properly. profiles saved properly, the performance was good. our only problem was that windows explorer was crashing like mad every time we browsed a smb share, no where else, we could browse directories on the hd and cds just fine no crashes, as soon as we went off to smb share, boom, crash. The testing machine had been mucked about with for a while so we decided to do a fresh windows install on it. we restarted the machine thinking that might make a difference and we started to see a duplicate name exists on the network, this was a windows system error. ignoring this, we went on with a fresh windows install, join the system to the domain just fine, but each time we tried to restart we get the same problem: a duplicate name exists on the network according to windows. once this happens, we can not logon to the new domain. even if we create a machine account on the samba box which is totally silly like schmoo, and make sure that the windows box has that same name, we still have this problem. this morning i am back up just fine on my old samba server which is identical accept for a different workgroup, netbiosname, and processor. meanwhile, we set an test environment isolated from the other network -- just the server, the testing windows box and a switch -- and we still see the same symptoms. nbtstat -n shows duplicate records in the netbois, which we can't figure out how to remove. we did nbtstat -R and nbtstat -RR to no avail. any ideas? I also still am going to have the windows explorer crash, i did try use sendfile = no before all the rest. thanks -- /home/modus/.signature Mon Sep 19 10:19:06 EDT 2005 The Moon is Waning Gibbous (97% of Full) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba