On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM Larry Linder
<[email protected]> wrote:
We liked how samba allow us to connect all systems. Now even the Win 8
and 10 machines do not see any of the other systems. They all see the
other win machines but none of the linux machines. On systems that are
running VMWare the win machines can see VM. I also found out that a
number of BeagleBone Black on the network were running smb and were
visible. Last Saturday for an hr or so the smb network was running and
I could access everything. I resarted smb on the server and it all went
away.
I shut down all the devices on the network except for 1 Win 8 box and 1
SL 6.10 box. Nothing.
Stop there. Seriously. Stop using SL 6.10 as a server, the base
operating system is 10 years old, the Samba is tremendously out of
date and the client hosts you expect to play nicely with it have real
differences in their CIFS behavior. If you have lightweight content to
share from the old SL 6 environments, NFS share it to an SL 7 or SL 8
and run Samba there.
Nico, If I understand correctly the clients for this SMB
service are *old* windows machines, running XP at the latest.
Larry, If I am wrong and the historical apps are running on SL6,
I would recommend moving them to some sort of container - singularity
is the one I have used. This way the apps see an SL6 environment *and*
the filesystem of the host (eg SL7) machine.
Yes it will be a pain to print to file in a container window,
then print the file from a host window, but there are ways around that.
--
Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
[email protected]
