Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:10:48 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PC Not Visible On Other Machines Message-ID: <20140803111048.GA44474@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <20140803061702.36b42de9@scorpio> References: <20140803061702.36b42de9@scorpio>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 06:17:02AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > Sun, 3 Aug 2014 06:14:32 -0400 > > FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 > > This is the first time this has ever happened that I am aware of. I tried > Googling but found nothing related to it. > > Yesterday, my MTA, Postfix stop working because it could not get SASL > authentication. That was because dovecot had failed to start. Dovecot failed > to start because it could not find its “PEM” files. It could not find its > “PEM” files because the “/etc/ssl” directory was gone. I have no idea how > that happened. I recreated the directory and the “PEM” files and that fixed > the Dovecot/Postfix problem. Now, I have another problem. My machine no > longer shows up in the network listing on any of my Windows machines. I have > one Win 8.1 and two Win 7 machines and on all of them, the FreeBSD machine is > gone. I did a complete reboot of every one of them but the problem continues. > I made sure that Samba was working so that does no appear to be the problem. > If I manually enter the machine name in the address bar on a Windows machine; > i.e., \\MyPC, I can access it. > > This makes no sense. Other than having to do a complete reinstall of FreeBSD, > something I have had to do in the past when things got totally F/U, is there > something I should check first? Directories do not just disappear. If you are sure you didn't accidentally delete them the directories in question, use e.g. sysutils/smartmontools to check the health of your harddisk, and do a full fsck on your filesystems. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT3hi4AAoJEED21dyjijPgetsQAMHFxJ/Am3LWivRXptr+fciz fiodHZIXjFacZUnmraMfgX/AhmXao7w2Z+1A95M3BHFAl50Cl911r4JUCYLYnBmd QKHTd9HZxT3FfNsr8cMhL+Oy1EcWSTOdmd+jRSv6RsunhfHwQ4xIE6XEDSamf9gS gnZvAWUcxvsjWZn++BFP0Yku0wLWGmawm0lWrX8MHQNvLN+xzwXcaxCXXji1RjXp wFOtniMWkSmdBy9aGzr72zqzefIyDfsYMRhiXLJFMny+4khEB70pr7LeqB16kya0 7fYW3bxbL9WV1iwnXCfNEkF11S0fsWZ1mNi4YFc0sAclmvNqTAgaosYlZJj9Yiup uo5fi2ob1TJPyOMYItr+75lAwh/aY4bRFf19ecFCcD0sDeCjJjwoP6uAJ85cXYR7 2BMGglgwXuXJocm9lQUiqoupbPo0WGFeJiEuBNmrdt1H2Wruu7/98d8MGGqoYoGJ 9NuQSyUnvwkCEy+kiS0b4+ptH0TBs9cKIFu/KNOzoE973TS8n43O1jPtH8lHo9fq ZlycRKbkhQe79yj/jxCcmajzaBK5kRA+DAAcGFc3gBhrQhExHl269TQtMn3GdAYB 2p3jb9yV3wXktyCap6aR+vDX2Uj5Ktka2Td9tIO6UaiV7x1tGh2jM4FBpdWwmnXF 39VWHWnKcife11quuc2C =hEUh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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