Re: samba issues

["Alex Meaden" <alex meaden net>]

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From: "whoever wherever" <linuxgeek23 hotmail com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: samba issues


>
> I have just set up SAMBA as a domain Controller for my network, but when I
> set my machine to the Domain name it tells me a domain controller was not
> available. I have RH 7.3 and the firewall is set to high with default
> settings, could this be part of the problem? Also, my DNS server is run by
> the university and not on my local network, another possible problem? One
> more thing, as of now our DNS is not active because we are in the process
of
> switching to our own network (instead of piggy backing another dept.) and
> the dns manager for the university said that if we went active with our
dns
> right now we would not be able to see our website or something along those
> lines. i am pretty confident that SAMBA is properly configured, but I need
> some help on where to go from here. Could any of these previously
mentioned
> things be responsible for my troubles? Please help! Thanks in advance.

Maybe if you could post your smb.conf (at least the [global] section) so we
can see if there's a problem there?

Alex.

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Mr Alex Meaden
Computer Science Undergraduate
University of Kent at Canterbury
aejm1 meaden dyndns org
http://meaden.dyndns.org/