Re: smbfs lossage with NT file servers

flippie (flippie@vwv.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:30:40 +0200


I have a problem with wins on samba. Samba pick's up the netbios name and ip
and after 3 days wins losses that info, and I have to restart the NT box. Only
then does Samba pick up the Netbios name and IP address.

F.

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, apostle@pobox.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:08:19PM -0400, Joel N. Weber II wrote:
> > In whatever the kernel distributed with redhat-6.0 is, (claims to be
> > 2.2.5-15) if I use smbmount to mount a filesystem from an NT server,
> > the date stamps are completely screwed up. I assume that this is
> > because the flavor of date stamps that NT uses don't happen to be
> > correctly supported by my kernel.
> >
> > Is there a version of the kernel which actually does the right thing
> > here? If not, can anyone tell me where there's enough documentation
> > of the SMB protocol for me to fix the kernel myself? Or if NT isn't
> > adaquately documented (which would hardly be surprising), what's the
> > best way to reverse engineer the protocol?
> >
>
> Yes, i have also experienced that same behavior with a debian system
> and a 2.2.5 kernel.
> I just read on the web where the linux SAMBA is just the fastest
> windows file server in the world.....
> It would be nice if that was true :))
>
> I want to determine if this is a kernel problem or not..
> Anyone else notice any problems like this ?
>
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