Samba Network Drive Inaccessible at Times
I have a WinXP Pro system networked to a Linux SUSE 9 with Samba. I have successfully connected the XP system to Samba with file and printer mappings for about the past year. After a few days, software I use to backup the XP system (in the background at 3:00 AM) to the Linux server will begin reporting that the drive is inaccessible. I can see the drive with Explorer and even browse the drive directories and folders. After doing this, the drive is accessible to the backup task. It will be OK for a few days before once again becoming inaccessible. I have tried to schedule a simple DOS BAT to list a directory on the drive prior to the backup task starting thinking I could reestablish the connection but this DOS task also fails with a like error. Any suggestions on what to look for in my Samba configuration or in Windows to keep this from happening?
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What dose the /var/logs say?
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Found in: file:/var/log/samba/log.nmbd
[2005/07/26 03:02:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(112) query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.1.4 for name NAGYFAMILY<1d>. This response was from IP 192.168.1.101, reporting an IP address of 192.168.1.101. I found messages in other logs that referenced printing issues and have not included them. Thanks! |
BTW, the address reported in the message ending in .101 is the XP machine and address ending in .4 is the server.
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This is a NMB clash. Name the XP box something like myxpbox2 reboot and rejoin the domain.
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Thanks! I've changed the name of the XP machine and we'll see in a week if this has improved the situation!
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In the week since I made the change to the computer name, the share has remained available and there have been no failures during the nightly backup. Thanks for interpreting the message and providing a fix.
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