I need to have the following services from my server:
imap - mostly by lan, but occasionally external file and print serve samba access - read and write to some directories
The problems I'm seeing are inconsistent, making it difficult to know how to find the source. Samba access is essential to me. I use a server-based korganizer, and without samba it's inaccessible. Sometimes it is working, sometimes it isn't. Last night, in desperation, I turned off selinux and the firewall so that I could finish a job, intending to get it sorted this morning. (There is a router firewall, so while security was diminished it was not totally absent.) This morning my laptop cannot make any samba connections at all.
In an attempt to find out what's happening I have searched log files, and the only relevant entries are as follow:
messages #borg2=server - no other connection at this point Feb 7 10:01:07 borg2 smbd[7393]: [2008/02/07 10:01:07, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(534) Feb 7 10:01:07 borg2 smbd[7393]: read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.0.91. Error = No route to host Feb 7 10:03:09 borg2 smbd[7394]: [2008/02/07 10:03:09, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(534) Feb 7 10:03:09 borg2 smbd[7394]: read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.0.91. Error = No route to host # laptop started - should automount borg2 Feb 7 10:09:48 borg2 automount[2590]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process Feb 7 10:09:48 borg2 automount[2590]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process Feb 7 10:09:48 borg2 automount[2590]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed for .directory # last entry refers to nfs export? # hostname lookup should be by way of /etc/hosts, which holds list of all lan members
secure shows nothing helpful
Way back I remember that msec used to change security settings overnight. Could this be happening?
I feel to be thrashing helplessly. I need help to find a sensible strategy for sorting this, then setting correct security measures.
TIA
Anne