Subject: Re: [vserver] CentOS 5 Samba problem
From: Guenther Fuchs <vserver@muh.at>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:29:15 +0200

Am 13.08.2011 19:12, schrieb Bruno Prémont:
>>      old: 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 (Debian stable standard 0.30.216-pre2772
>> kernel)
>>      new: 2.6.22.19-vs2.3.0.34.1 (dhozac repo supplied; installed from a
>> mirror)
> ^^^^^^^^^ is that really 2.6.22?? So downgrade of kernel?
Yes, it was. Meantime I upgraded to 
2.6.32-131.2.1.el5.vs2.3.0.36.29.6.18.x86_64 from another mirror. The 
necessity to reinstall the sys was not really existing, although it 
occasionally lost it's network connectivity (totally) and I wanted to 
track that down on CentOS, which I'm much more familiar with.
> Could it be related to netbios/broadcast?
Possiby, can't confirm nor deny. But the guest sys was up and running on 
the distro, nothing has been changed on the guest, so I don't really 
think it's a problem up to guest or Samba configs.
> Can you reach the server via its IP address \\a.b.c.d\ instead of by name?
Same thing - long time no replay at all, then come up with "Der 
Netzwerkpfad wurde nicht gefunden". As mentioned - I don't think it's 
really a guest config problem - but also I don't really see a reason for 
this behavings in now two kernel versions of Daniel's CentOS supplied 
kernels.
> Might help to add your subnet's broadcast address to those addresses
> available to your samba guest.
Will try that soon.
> Note: what Windows version is it you are using? Vista/Win7 might also try
> some IPv6 access.
Both WinXP SP3 and Win7 64bit SP1; both on IPv4 only
> You might get some hints by sniffing the Windows box's network activity.
The only thing I ever sniffed was once tobacco - and that did not really 
satisfy. So if you could give me some noob "howto" I'd be happy to try that.

-- 
greez,

Guenther Fuchs