I've had a strange problem since I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10. All of a sudden my Samba network stopped working - specifically, computers in the workgroup stopped being visible, no longer appearing in Windows networking, or on linux clients.
After a very large number of hours trying to figure it out I stumbled on what was causing the problem, but I still don't know how to fix it. The problem occurs the moment I have one or more computers assigned an IP by DHCP. As soon as a DHCP network address is assigned the Samba network disappears. The shares are still directly accessible in windows: i.e.: //servername/myshare But the shares can not be browsed on linux / windows computers. When I change them all to static IP's the network appears. So there seems to be a definitely problem between Samba and DHCP when IPs are assigned. I've tried everything I can think of and can't find anything useful (to me) in the logs. I would prefer to have DHCP working alongside Samba. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
