[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba HELP!!!

[Greg E]

Yes I did change smb.conf to the new allow and hosts addresses.  The windows
machine is finding my server ok but someone is telling the server that a
master running on the old address even though it's no longer a valid IP in
the network.

Greg E


Kathleen Weaver wrote:
> 
> First did you change your address in the /etc/samba.conf file?
> 
> Otherwise, probably.
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Greg E wrote:
> 
> > Everytime I make a change to my Winxx machines' configuration I cringe!!!
> >
> > Over the weekend I needed to change my intranet IP assignments to a 10.0.x.x
> > Class B network.  Everything went pretty good until I tried to logon to my
> > Win98 box.  I run Samba on my Linux servers and use 1 of them as a WINS master
> > with my Win98 box as a client.  The network is working fine and I've purged
> > the old addressing scheme (and addresses) from everywhere.  After looking
> > at my nmb logs I've found that the WINS server requests and wins as a master
> > and then a message stating that a master browser is already running at the
> > old server IP on the UNICAST_NETWORK subnet.  I have not been able to find
> > where this is comming from and since this IP doesn't exist anymore everything
> > comes to a grinding halt.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what's going on here?????
> >
> > An idea came to me during my commute this morning, could this be comming
> > from the windows virtual memory cache?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Greg E
> >
> 
>  Kathleen