[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Rossana) writes: > I did a bit more checking on the SMB problems that I have been reporting. > Here is some additional information. Note that in all cases whenever I > changed a configuration I rebooted the machine to be sure that nothing weird > might be going on. > > Buchan Milne suggested turning off any hosts allow statement in smb.conf. I > did so and it has no effect. > > Brook Humphrey suggested turning off shorewall. I did so and it has no > effect. Brook also suggested checking on the security level. I use standard > and never touched it from the time of install. > > I did however discover something by accident. In one of these tests I > happened to try accessing linux files from WinXP and went away from the > machine. I discovered that it was able to find them after what appeared to > be a very substantial amount of time. Testing it out under various scenarios > gives the following information. I can use files from the linux partition > but it takes a full five minutes (yes that's right five minutes) for windows > explorer to display them. It just hangs there for all that time and then the > files appear. This is obviously unacceptable. Samba in the past always > would function in just a few seconds but, for whatever reason, this share, as > opposed to another share, cannot be found for all this time. Further, shut > down the machine and you ge the error message that the smb process was killed > and thus can't be shut down. > > At this point the only thing I can suggest is that something in the security > settings may be doing this. I use the ones set by default on install but > maybe that is where the problem lies. > > Bob
http://shorewall.net/samba.htm replace loc with masq ... and try again cheers, -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
