Bubba stops answering on http://bubba and \\bubba

Tompa · Post by **Tompa** » 31 Mar 2007, 05:15

Hi all,

My bubba sometimes stops responding to the "bubba" network name.
It seem to happen everytime I reset my router (and the including dhcp-server). Still, it always answers on the IP-address as it should though.

Is there a "samba daemon" or similar that can be restarted? It's beginning to be a bit annoying to have to restart bubba each time.

/Tompa

Post by **tor** » 31 Mar 2007, 11:47

Hi Tompa,

Which operating system do you run on your desktop computer? And does your router contain any DNS server functionality?

You can restart samba, logged in as root, with:

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/etc/init.d/samba restart

But it shouldnt be nessecary to do this. Since it stops working when your router is restarted it sounds like some DNS forgets about Bubba.

/Tor

Tompa · Post by **Tompa** » 05 Apr 2007, 08:10

Funny, I cannot seem to reproduce this error any longer so in a way thats good

I recently installed Windows Vista and after that I havent seen the problem. I used to run Windows XP on my client computer.

I have a dlink DI-624 router and the client is configured to recieve both IP and DNS dynamically from dhcp.

I thought that a \\bubba call on the network meant a netbios broadcast rather than resolving the ip using DNS?