Re: Samba won't dance (more info)

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 17:58:24 Bill Crawford wrote:
On 15/04/2008, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
FWIW, a while back I had a thread on the CentOS list about being unable
to get user mode working, and I found, as you did, that even after
re-starting samba it still didn't work - but then did a while later.
I've never heard a convincing argument as to why that should be so. HTH

Quite often it is purely down to the delays caused by the "browser
election" process coupled with getting whoever ends up being master
browser to acknowledge that your server exists.

Could be. My preferred master is clearly defined, but I guess that elections
still take place.

It's a bit of an
over-simplification and probably wildly inaccurate, but reflects my
experiences here (where it fails regularly due to someone adding a
machine called "WORKGROUP" to the network :o)).

Hey, I have a user like that - regular re-installs :-)

Anne

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