On 30/01/11 13:42, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
My son is trying to access our Stora media server as a file server using samba
on Kubuntu 10.10. When he first tried to access the network, the response was
that there was nothing on it, then after a while the Stora and other boxes
appeared. I told him that this was a 'feature' of smb/cifs in that the
network takes a while to notice that a new host has joined but after that it
should be pretty much instantaneous.
He's just proved me wrong because after a crash in k3b, (I don't know why;
I've never seen k3b crash) he rebooted his machine and now he has exactly the
same delay.
Anyone any ideas why this is happening? Networking works fine on this
computer and any others that I've connected in the past. I don't recall if
this machine has been connected to the network ipreviously; it's relatively
new and we probably did a clean install of Kubuntu last October.
I remember a similar problem, caused by DNS issues. The systems were
configured to use OpenDNS, and they serve a search page for any failed
DNS lookup. Samba clients were using DNS as a first option. Instead of
a failure that would cause them to try other methods, they were trying
to use IP address returned, which was the OpenDNS search page web server.
The fix, IIRC, was to create a /etc/samba/smb.conf file on the client
machines and set (again from memory) the name resolve order paramter.
The smbclient and smbcontrol command line tools are very useful for
debugging!
Something like smbcontrol all debug 3 will set all daemons to a higher
log level. You can then tail -f the log file in one terminal and try
smbclient -L //somename or smbclient -L //192.168.1.1, using the
actual IP of the machine you want to browse.
Best regards,
John
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