A.P. Lawrence

Visionfs and Samba

I had a strange problem today with Visionfs and a new Samba on a SME Linux server.

System had been running for a couple of years with the SME server providing DHCP to the Windows PC's, and Wins to them and Visionfs.

The upgrade to SME 6.0 of course upgraded Samba. Everything was fine until we had to restart Visionfs. It would start, but it couldn't register its own name on the network.

Curiously, Windows XP and 98 machines could still "see" the SCO machine, although they could not print. Windows 95 boxes couldn't see it at all.

The solution for the moment was to stop Samba, restart Visionfs, and then restart Samba. Everything is happy after that, though I remain a little puzzled as to what is going on here..

Psst - Wanna work for yourself?

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