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diff --git a/docs/textdocs/GOTCHAS.txt b/docs/textdocs/GOTCHAS.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bc5c6dae85 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/textdocs/GOTCHAS.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +This file lists Gotchas to watch out for: +========================================================================= +Item Number: 1.0 +Description: Problem Detecting Interfaces +Symptom: Workstations do NOT see Samba server in Browse List +OS: RedHat - Rembrandt Beta 2 +Platform: Intel +Date: August 16, 1996 +Submitted By: John H Terpstra +Details: + By default RedHat Rembrandt-II during installation adds an + entry to /etc/hosts as follows:- + 127.0.0.1 loopback "hostname"."domainname" + + This causes Samba to loop back onto the loopback interface. + The result is that Samba fails to communicate correctly with + the world and therefor may fail to correctly negotiate who + is the master browse list holder and who is the master browser. + +Corrective Action: Delete the entry after the word loopback + in the line starting 127.0.0.1 +========================================================================= +Item Number: 2.0 +Description: Problems with MS Windows NT Server network logon service +Symptom: Loss of Domain Logon Services and failed Windows NT / 95 + logon attempts. +OS: All Unix systems with Windows NT Domain Control environments. +Platform: All +Date: February 1, 1997 +Submitted By: John H Terpstra +Details: + Samba is configured for Domain logon control in a network + where a Windows NT Domain Primary Controller is running. + + Case 1: + The Windows NT Server is shut down, then restarted. Then + the Samba server is reconfigured so that it NO LONGER offers + Domain logon services. Windows NT and 95 workstations can no + longer log onto the domain. Ouch!!! + + Case 2: + The Windows NT Server which is running the Network logon + Service is shut down and restarted while Samba is a domain + controller offering the Domain LogOn service. Windows NT + Workstation and Server can no longer log onto the network. + + Cause: + Windows NT checks at start up to see if any domain logon + controllers are already running within the domain. It finds + Samba claiming to offer the service and therefore does NOT + start its Network Logon Service. + + Windows NT needs the Windows NT network logon service to gain + from its Domain controller's SAM database the security + identifier for the user loging on. + +Work-around: Stop the Samba nmbd and smbd processes, then on the Windows + NT Primary Domain Controller start the Network Logon Service. + Now restart the Samba nmbd and smbd services. + + Better still: DO NOT CONFIGURE SAMBA AS THE NETWORK LOGON + SERVER, DO NOT SET SAMBA TO BE THE DOMAIN MASTER, DO NOT + SET SAMBA TO OS LEVEL GREATER THAN 0. + + ie: Let Windows NT Server be the Domain Logon server, the + domain master browser and do NOT interfere with any aspect + of Microsoft Windows NT Domain Control. +========================================================================= |