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Connection issues between windows server and samba! Scott Shinnie 08-07-2008
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?U2NvdHQgU2hpbm5pZQ== on August 7, 2008, 10:10 am
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We have a Windows Server 2003 cluster which accesses data held on a samba
share hosted on a Solaris 9.0 machine in a trusted domain. However we
regularly lose connectivity to the samba share from one of the application
servers. The share is up but the server is unable to access it.

If I RDP on to the server and try and browse the share I receive the
following error.

\serveralias\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
if you have access permissions.

No network provider accepted the given network path.

If I use a FQDN (unix machine is in a different domain) or IP address to
access the share it works correctly. If i reboot the server access to the
share is restored.

This one has me beat - any advice would be appreciated - kerberos issue??

Thanks in advance

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?TmV3ZWxsIFdoaXRl?= on August 7, 2008, 10:55 am
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"Scott Shinnie" wrote:

> We have a Windows Server 2003 cluster which accesses data held on a samba
> share hosted on a Solaris 9.0 machine in a trusted domain. However we
> regularly lose connectivity to the samba share from one of the application
> servers. The share is up but the server is unable to access it.
>
> If I RDP on to the server and try and browse the share I receive the
> following error.
>
> \serveralias\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> if you have access permissions.
>
> No network provider accepted the given network path.
>
> If I use a FQDN (unix machine is in a different domain) or IP address to
> access the share it works correctly. If i reboot the server access to the
> share is restored.
>
> This one has me beat - any advice would be appreciated - kerberos issue??
>
> Thanks in advance

You are not alone.

I can only map a Unix-based network drive by using \IP\sharename on XP
workstation in our domain.
But once I do so, Explorer picks up the name (serveralias) from somewhere.

I suspect that computer names without domain suffix are located through the
browse list, which is powered by NetBIOS-over-TCP/IP, which Unix doesn't
recognise.
FQDNs are handled by DNS and AD I guess.
--
Newell White



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?QW50ZWF1cw==?= on August 12, 2008, 3:20 am
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If you are using internal DNS, you need to add A and PTR records for the
samba server.

"Scott Shinnie" wrote:

> We have a Windows Server 2003 cluster which accesses data held on a samba
> share hosted on a Solaris 9.0 machine in a trusted domain. However we
> regularly lose connectivity to the samba share from one of the application
> servers. The share is up but the server is unable to access it.
>
> If I RDP on to the server and try and browse the share I receive the
> following error.
>
> \serveralias\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> if you have access permissions.
>
> No network provider accepted the given network path.
>
> If I use a FQDN (unix machine is in a different domain) or IP address to
> access the share it works correctly. If i reboot the server access to the
> share is restored.
>
> This one has me beat - any advice would be appreciated - kerberos issue??
>
> Thanks in advance

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?U2NvdHQgU2hpbm5pZQ== on September 29, 2008, 7:11 am
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Thank you both for the response, I resolved this issue by pointing the
application to an alias on the unix cluster which was running samba. Unsure
why this has resolved the issue when the main A record already exists in DNS.
4 weeks since I made the change and servers have not dropped a single
connection to the share.
Thanks
Scott

"Anteaus" wrote:

> If you are using internal DNS, you need to add A and PTR records for the
> samba server.
>
> "Scott Shinnie" wrote:
>
> > We have a Windows Server 2003 cluster which accesses data held on a samba
> > share hosted on a Solaris 9.0 machine in a trusted domain. However we
> > regularly lose connectivity to the samba share from one of the application
> > servers. The share is up but the server is unable to access it.
> >
> > If I RDP on to the server and try and browse the share I receive the
> > following error.
> >
> > \serveralias\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> > this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> > if you have access permissions.
> >
> > No network provider accepted the given network path.
> >
> > If I use a FQDN (unix machine is in a different domain) or IP address to
> > access the share it works correctly. If i reboot the server access to the
> > share is restored.
> >
> > This one has me beat - any advice would be appreciated - kerberos issue??
> >
> > Thanks in advance

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