On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Ngu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm using samba 2.07 under Redhat linux 7.1, and the linux server has an > internal IP addr. number. I use Windows 98, XP as clients to connect to > samba and map drive; Everything work fine, however, everytime the > internet is down then I can't logon to samba at all. If the internet is > down and I restart the Windows machines to log on to the workgroup (samba) > then it gives me an error message as "No domain server was available to > validate your password. You might not be able to access to some network > resources". > > Is there a way that I can setup Samba to work in a LAN environment only > (not dependable on the DNS or Internet)?
Are you using WINS? If your samba server is dependant on broadcast and DNS lookups (since DNS lookups are blocking calls!) you will have a problem. But with WINS this is avoided. Configure your Samba servers as a WINS server: in smb.conf [globals] set "wins support = yes", and set your Windows clients tcp/ip config for WINS server to the internal IP address of your samba server, and this problem should go away. - John T. > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > > David N. > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
