more-info : Samba <-> XP problem

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Gary Stainburn wrote:

>On Wednesday 13 October 2004 2:31 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
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>>Hi folks.
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>>I've got a samba setup that's been working for age.  However, since
>>we moved the computer dept into a new building I'm having problems
>>with some XP systems not being able to access it, getting
>>authorisation errors when trying to open the window.  Others are
>>opening the window okay but not seeing any shares.
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>>The only entries I can find in the logs are the nmbd failing to log
>>itself with the WINS/browser server 10.1.1.101 (see below). the
>>smbd.log doesn't get updated when the XP box tries to connect.
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>>Anyone got any ideas what I can do next?
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>I've found that by doing
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>ifconfig eth1 down
>ifconfig eth2 down
>service smb restart
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>everything's fine again (eth1 and eth2 are not currently connected but 
>are configured for different LANs).
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>Don't know why this' got it working again. anyone got a clue?
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Then probably it's a routing issue. give us ifconfig -a and route -n