Which distro to switch an FC3 samba server to?

[A. Rick Anderson]

Okay, with a lot of unexpected hickups, I was able to get the lastest 
shadow-utils installed.  I restarted smb via the System  Settings 
Configuration tool.

My personal win2k machine can see the server just fine.  I am using "net 
view \\anar" to test the samba connections.  My wife's laptop, gets a:
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.

(This is the typical message I get)

My (win2k) printer server gets a:
System error 121 has occurred.
The semaphore timeout period has expired.

This is an FC2 machine, that was upgraded to an FC3.  When I attempted 
to use up2date to finish the upgrade, it got half-way through, and then 
started claiming that all of my packages are up to date.  In addition to 
up2date, I've tried smart, apt-get with the same results.

The impact is that while folks can get in and appear to authenticate via 
the PDC, none of the shares work and attempting to access network 
resources, such as the printers or other pc's fail.  ssh back to the 
server works (my wife can still play kshishen), nobody can print and 
most of the time, nobody except my own machine can see the shares.  If I 
renew a network connection, the DHCP settings on my FC3 machine seem to 
work on the network pc.  (Note: I have a second DHCP server built into 
my DirecWay 6000 satellite modem), but I try to stick with my FC3 server 
as much as I can.  At random intervals, the two machines downstairs (one 
of which is the printer server) can reconnect if I do a manual restart 
on the smb services.

I've disabled the firewall, just to make sure that is not the problem.

The shadow-utils was stuck at shadow-utils-4.0.3-37, which is obviously 
not correct.  According to the RH Alert Notification Tool, I've got 
about 2 dozen non-current packages.  But up2date, smart and apt-get seem 
to think I'm just fine.

I haven't filed this as a "bug" because I'm fairly sure the problem is 
not with the RH samba distro, but with something in the network 
configuration, possibly with the up2date configuration.

-- 
A. Rick Anderson