Samba issue

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
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>> Alvin wrote:
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>>> On Thursday 26 November 2009 00:17:58 Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>> Well, there is bug #462169, mentioned in the release notes:
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/ReleaseNotes#Samba%20nmbd%20daemon%20not%20started%20during%20boot
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>>> If that is the case, see if you can restart samba:
>>> $ sudo service samba restart
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>> 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.
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> ComA: I'm the master browser
> ComB: Yeah right
> ComC: Got lost you too, I'm the boss here.
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> Big tussle ensures.
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> Okay, joke over. What are you using for name resolution? WINS or DNS
I liked the joke, though. I just wish I had a good answer to the 
question. I am using a Workgroup, and I don't recall that the question 
of name resolution ever came up. Now that you bring it up, though, it 
does sound like a relevant detail. Would one of my Windows machines be 
the likely Master Browser?

Thank you,

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