Frequent SAMBA Problem

[rajesh.bahl]

Dear all,

Hello !  I am facing one problem as:-

My network has a mixture of windows and samba machines. Many-a-times linux machines stop accessing windows machines--consequently linux machines can not share data with windows machines and also the printing from linux machines stops as printers are installed on windows machines ( because of  USB laser printers not performing well on linux).

This happens randomly -- other windows machines are still able to see/print from "print server" machine.
Although these machines are visible in browsing but their resources can not be accessed from linux machines.

Linux is CentOS 4.4 and windows is XP professional. Samba version is 3.0.


Can some one help in resolving the problem ?




regards
rajesh.bahl

[Ricky]

Can you try to find any particular condition when they stops..

Any guess or any doubt about anything responsible for this ?

[rajesh.bahl]

I have tried a lot but have not been successful !

If it is working --for days together it will work okay. But if it goes "out of order" then by no  means it can be made operational.
Is really becoming a mystery .



rajesh.bahl

 

[Ricky]

Is there any network data collision ?

[rajesh.bahl]

This happens from Linux machines only. Strange part is that these windows machines appear in "browsing" but their contents can not be accessed.
Other windows machines on the same network can see and access resources on this windows machine when linux boxes can not.


rajesh.bahl