[WBEL-users] Samba and WBEL4

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:16 +0000, Francies Moore wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> We have recently set up a WBEL 4.0 box running Samba for about 35 users 
> on Win2K.  There are problems appearing with our network - the time on 
> the various machines is drifting apart and hopefully my technical 
> support man is going to deal with this using NTP.  Also there are issues 
> with the speed of the network switches ...
> 
> However, over the last couple of days repeated errors are appearing in 
> dmesg and /var/log/messages;
> 
> server kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 1234  /* various numbers here */
> 
> I have changed smb.conf to remove kernel oplocks, and await results to 
> see if this stops it.
> 
> Has anyone else had this message appear, is it dangerous, and is it 
> possibly connected with the timing problem?
> 
> Also has anyone any suggestions for a (free!) NTP client for Windows 2K?
> 
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windows clients can use the command...

net time /setsntp:name_of_ntp_server

Craig