Connection issues between windows server and samba!

[Guest Scott Shinnie]

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

[Guest Newell White]

"Scott Shinnie" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> 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.

>

> \serveraliasshare 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 </span>

 

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

[Guest Anteaus]

If you are using internal DNS, you need to add A and PTR records for the

samba server.

 

"Scott Shinnie" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> 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.

>

> \serveraliasshare 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 </span>

[Guest Scott Shinnie]

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:

<span style="color:blue">

> If you are using internal DNS, you need to add A and PTR records for the

> samba server.

>

> "Scott Shinnie" wrote:

> <span style="color:green">

> > 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.

> >

> > serveraliasshare 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 </span></span>