All, I work for a school and we have laptop carts. However, for over a month, I had this travelling laptop problem where somewhere between 5-15% of my laptops could not see the domain controller (domain not available error). I called it the travelling problem, because randomly throughout the day, different laptops could not connect. Some would start out not working, and by the end of the day, they would.
After trying to reformat, connect with a wired connection, and basically everything else I could think of on the Windows XP side of things- I decided to delete the samba cache. This solved the issue. However, two days later the issue came back. So I deleted samba cache again and it went away. I now do a nightly cronjob of deleting samba cache. My question is: What am I actually fixing and is there a patch for this? I am running Samba: samba-3.0.14a-2 on Fedora Core 4 and at my other school: samba-3.0.10-1.4E.11 on Cent OS 4.4. In case you were wondering, here is my vacuum samba script: #!/bin/bash /etc/init.d/smb stop sleep 15 cd /var/cache/samba rm -fr * /etc/init.d/smb start sleep 15 net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=root Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba