Marcus Andersson wrote:
Hi everybody!
I have a problem wich has pusseled me for sometime time.
I have put samba on an internal subnet wich is the same as the
windowsclients. Everything works great as long as internet is up and
running but if internet goes down then the windowsclients can't find the
sambaserver or just simly times out when trying to log in.
I'm not sure what this means. The "internet" never goes down. What I
assume is that the local lan loses internet conectivity. If so, the
cause of the disconnection is the source of the problem, not samba.
On one installation I have a netgear router wich handels the traffic and
is dhcpserver for the internal net
OK, here it sounds like your router is going down (?). Why not run dhcp
from the *nix box running samba. That way you could also hand out wins
server info to the windows clients, which I'm certain the netgear router
cannot do. Depending on the dhcp timeout on the netgear, if netgear
goes down, as soon as the dhcp client needs to get an ip reissued, the
client IP probably goes away.
and in the other the windows machine
has a isdn-connection localy which gives it connection to the internet
and also routes the internal net (sambaserver) to the internet.
Huh?
I also has a third installation where the server running samba also is
the gateway to internet and this problem never occurs there. If internet
goes down then the clients can still login whitout problem.
I would really appreciate some input on this problem since it keeps me
awake at nights :) I have searced the internet but couldn't find
anything that explains it.
Thanks in advance
/marcus
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