You didn't start dhcp on your pc as part of the upgrade did you... so you've 
now got multiple dhcp servers have you, or has ubuntu decided to use another 
subnet? 

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:43:46 +1300
Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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. 
> 
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