Samba Died!!!

Sathe · 01-16-2002, 11:15 PM

All of a sudden i cannot connect to my samba shares on my server, nothing changed between yesterday and today, and no one else has access to it but me. i used a port scanner and both the port on the server and on my computer are open, yet it won't make the connection. smb.conf file is ok, so are ipchains.........i dont know what could have happened........someone, anyone with an idea?

trickykid · 01-17-2002, 12:06 AM

have you tried to restart it to see if that works.. ??

Sathe · 01-17-2002, 11:12 AM

yes, i've rebooted mulitple times

ive restarted the sambe service, everyything i can think of

te_conway · 01-17-2002, 12:37 PM

Put your client IP and netbios name in the /etc/hosts file of the PC that Samba is running on and try that. Samba has a reverse DNS/timeout issue that is very imtermittent.

Make sure you restart samba before trying to connect.

Sathe · 01-17-2002, 12:47 PM

i've never had any entries there before and its worked fine...but i'll try

slackdaddy · 01-18-2002, 09:01 AM

Have you added any new machine to the network.....Win2k will break samba... If this is the case you need samba TNG

Sathe · 01-18-2002, 09:21 AM

actually, win2k doesnt break samba, thats what i am running at home and it runs like a dream, but i ended up fixing it, not exactly sure what it was, but i ended up wiping out all the entries in my hosts file and just putting the 127 one and the one for my 2000 box, and WHA LA, all fixed, or something...........anyways, thanks for the help