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[Michel-André]

Get rid of UPNP on the XP
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Coen Boef wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I ran into a problem with one of our customers networks. We installed 
> a Redhat 8.0 server a while ago and never updated it since it was 
> behind a firewall and we did not see why we should fix something which 
> wasn't broken. On a monday morning I typed 'up2date -u' in the wrong 
> terminal and didn't bother to look at it before it was too late. The 
> entire system was updated and started to show some unusual behaviour.
>
> First thing we noticed was that users couldn't log on with Windows XP 
> to the Samba domain. After a lot of tries they could log on, but they 
> didn't get all of their shares (especially their home dirs weren't 
> mapped). I roled the samba install back from 2.2.7 to 2.2.5 and the 
> problem seemed to be fixed.
> After about a week they started calling us again then it sometimes 
> took up to 20 tries to log on to the domain. After some research I 
> found out that they didn't receive an IP address from the DHCP server. 
> The log didn't show that it had been updated by up2date but the 
> problem does seem to exist since the update. The network works fine 
> with static IP's but the DHCP for some reason refuses to hand out 
> IP's. /var/log/messages shows incoming calls (discover/offer/ACK) but 
> the XP clients either never get it, or for some reason don't use it.
>
> Can somebody please tell me what happend and how I can fix this problem?
> It would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Coen Boef
>
>
>
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