Samba issue

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
ComA: I'm the master browser
ComB: Yeah right
ComC: Got lost you too, I'm the boss here.

Big tussle ensures.

Okay, joke over. What are you using for name resolution? WINS or DNS?