Samba issue

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Alvin wrote:
> On Thursday 26 November 2009 00:17:58 Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>   
>> For some reason Samba seems to have stopped working on all 3 of my
>> Kubuntu boxes at the same time, about 2 days ago. This seems suspicious
>> somehow. Do you know if there was an update of some kind that broke
>> Samba on Kubuntu?
>>     
>
> Well, there is bug #462169, mentioned in the release notes:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/ReleaseNotes#Samba%20nmbd%20daemon%20not%20started%20during%20boot
>
> If that is the case, see if you can restart samba:
> $ sudo service samba restart
>   
I don't think that is it. After some more searching I tried connecting 
using IP addresses instead of server names, and that seems to work OK. 
But I am still puzzled as to why three different machines would suddenly 
decide to stop finding server names all at the same time.

Thank you,

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