[NTLUG:Discuss] Quick samba question

[Brian]

> The config worked great until the internet connection went down.  this stumped
> me for a long time.  I finally found out that my DNS server was causing the
> samba server to time out name look ups... I am not really great at digging
> into samba yet, but that is my guess on what was happening.

Figured it out, thanks to everyone's help.  It was a little bit of everything:
the user nobody has a password (!), I misspelled the directory name in one of the
services sections, and I had to set 'dns proxy = no' (resolv.conf had an
unreachable DNS address).

Pretty cool stuff.  I have samba running on a 486/40 with about 16M of RAM, and
it's still quite snappy.  These are the little things that keep me interested in
Linux...

Oh, and here's a link Kathleen forwarded to me that has some very good samba
troubleshooting tips:

http://home.freeuk.net/linux.help/networks.htm

  --Brian