[K12OSN] Old K12, with samba issues, I think

[musicman]

Well, My thanks go out to you Mr/Ms Mikesell....

I don't know what I did in particular that fixed the problem, but I
had turned the WINS server off on the win2K server/PDC because I
thought it was superfluous in our system, so I switched that back
on...I also added the line "netbios name = backup" to the K12OS box
smb.conf....ran the rsync, and it's still going after an hour - which
means it's working, to me - previous to this, my average was 15
minutes (sometimes 13, sometimes 17, never 20)...

So, smb relies on WINS? Does AD require WINS as well?

Happy sys admin saturday :)

L.

On 4/22/05, musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/21/05, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> >
> > You might want to add the --delete option so it will always remove files
> > that were deleted on the source.  Or set up backuppc which will compress
> > files and let you keep a specified number of days on line.  You'll get
> > about 5x the amount of stuff in the same space.
> 
> Yeah, I thought of that - it is a redundant backup, we have tape and
> win batch backups as well. The problem is they are hard to restore
> from on the fly - which is where linux/rsync is fantastic - the samba
> share can be there instantly - but "--delete" ing the files nullifies
> that...this is our quick restore backup.....
> 
> > A PDC really, really wants to be the master browser, especially if
> > everything isn't set up to use it as a WINS server.  In
> > /etc/samba/smb.conf, set 'local master = no' and 'domain master = no'.
> 
> Done both of these already, and restarted smbd.  As for WINS, I
> actually turned the service off on the win2K server, as it is a
> protocol that is only used for mixed windows networks (pre+post NT
> OSs) and we only have 2000 or XP in the office.
> 
> >
> > If you can put all your machine names in a local DNS server (even an
> > unregistered domain name will work locally) you can avoid most of the
> > problems of broadcast-based naming - at least for win2k and up.
> 
> I'll try this now....Also, I noticed stuff about the "netbios name" in
> 'man smb.conf' - do people tend to think this is necessary? Currently
> we are without this....
> 
> > If you get too far behind you will have trouble keeping the system
> > updated with security and critical bug fixes. If you aren't going to
> > upgrade you should at least set up apt/yum to use the appropriate
> > repository at http://fedoralegacy.org/ and pick up the available
> > updates.   Long-term, try to get replacement/backup hardware for your
> > server so you can install and test the new system with no risk to the
> > old one. Then even after you cut over you can still go back to the old
> > one to see how something worked if you missed anything.
> 
> We have a debian firewall that is rock solid, and are using openvpn to
> tunnell through....so at the moment, I'm not too worried about
> security. But you are right - we've got a test server coming in soon,
> so maybe I'll requisition that to do some updating initially -
> thanks...
>