[KLUG Members] SAMBA Problem

[Chester Wisniewski]

Robert,

The problem you are having sounds very much like a name resolution issue as
mentioned by Adam. Unless you have Active Directory, Windows clients behave
VERY badly if they don't have WINS. Its basically a requirement. Your
problem is most likely caused by the clients trying to resolve via broadcast
and timing out finding the workgroup/domain. Once more time passes and they
are in Windows, the broadcast is coming through and it can now resolve the
Samba server. Is your Samba set up for Domain or Workgroup mode? Are you
serving DHCP from the same box?


Good Luck,

Chester Wisniewski