[PLUG] Problem with samba?

[Wil Cooley]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 03:12 +0000, kim_mary at comcast.net wrote:
> Since switching to DHCP, on Red Hat 8.0, all of my Windows 98 clients
> have the same problem when trying to log onto the network. They get an
> error message stating that no domain server was available. After
> clicking cancel and then doing an ipconfig /all, they are not
> receiving an ip address from the server. I then have to do a
> ipconfig /renew_all and then have them log off and then back in again.

Verify the netmask; I've seen some versions of 95/98 that disregarded
the netmask given by DHCP, which broke the SMB broadcasting.

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
Naked Ape Consulting                        http://nakedape.cc

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