[Lethe]

Hi all,

After a two stressed out days, and after many hours googling etc. today I finally resolved a serious problem I was getting at work with the help of Snap tech support (finally I got a guy who knew what he was talking about).

We have five 4100 NAS boxes serving 300GB+ data to 200 clients. We are migrating from a NT4 domain to Win2003 Active Directory domain.

Over Xmas (Xmas eve and Xmas day in fact) I flashed up the boxes to the latest SnapOS 4.0.860 (UK) ready for AD.

On the test box, I changed to the AC domain and set the user up. Rebooted.

Then I kept getting this in the logs:

SMB: Can't resolve master browser IP address for domain <DOMAIN>

And of course couldn't do much else as no DC was found so no ACL list etc. A box on it's own.

I tried everything, including reading almost all the threads here for enlightenment.

The fix is really to do with the way Snap 4100 hasn't really got a DNS configuration page, so the tech guy said we will have to hack the hosts file.

So, presume this arrangement:

Domain name: Mickey
DC IP Address: 123.456.789.123
DC machine name: Mouse

Then in http://<server IP>/config/debug enter these two lines consecutively:

hosts Mickey ip 123.456.789.123 <OK>
hosts Mickey machine Mouse <OK>

Reboot.

You will now find DC controller is found, and immediately ACL is pulled in from the AD DC.

Hope that helps somebody.

Nick