Network resources evaporate on FC3 within 30 minutes of a reboot

A. Rick Anderson arick at pobox.com
Sat Dec 11 02:48:05 UTC 2004


Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 18:44, A. Rick Anderson wrote:
>  
>
>>Ever since I upgraded my machine from FC2 to FC3, I've been having 
>>network issues.  In the course of debugging problems with my samba 
>>shares, I discovered that named.conf had been swapped out.  Switching 
>>the file names back seems to have resolved the samba shares problem.  
>>I'm not sure that issues related to it operating as a PDC have been 
>>resolved.
>>
>>After my FC3 machine is up for 15 to 30 minutes, all the connected Win2k 
>>resources start failing.  The various PC's no longer can access each 
>>other's shares, including shared printers.  If a user attempts to log 
>>into one of the machines, if the user hasn't already logged in on that 
>>particular machine, she will get a message saying that the domain is not 
>>available.  If you try to access one of the shares, it will present you 
>>with an authentication dialog box, but you will fail every time.
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like your linux system is fighting with another domain
>controller.  If you want samba to win the election to become browser
>master you need to set the os level parameter to 32 or higher.  I
>believe it defaults to 20. 
>
>  
>
I've currently got my Linux box set to 60, which was sufficient with 
FC2.  I've also got it set to be the "preferred master" and "domain 
master".  My smb.conf is attached.

-- 
A. Rick Anderson


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