From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 11:10:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC22564E for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 11:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 767532F74 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 11:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home (slackbox.xs4all.nl [83.162.243.5]) by smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s73BAmHi054987 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:10:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8B169123A8; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:10:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:10:48 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: User questions Subject: Re: PC Not Visible On Other Machines Message-ID: <20140803111048.GA44474@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: User questions References: <20140803061702.36b42de9@scorpio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140803061702.36b42de9@scorpio> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 11:10:59 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 06:17:02AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > Sun, 3 Aug 2014 06:14:32 -0400 >=20 > FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 >=20 > =EF=BB=BFThis is the first time this has ever happened that I am aware of= =2E I tried > Googling but found nothing related to it. >=20 > Yesterday, my MTA, Postfix stop working because it could not get SASL > authentication. That was because dovecot had failed to start. Dovecot fai= led > to start because it could not find its =E2=80=9CPEM=E2=80=9D files. It co= uld not find its > =E2=80=9CPEM=E2=80=9D files because the =E2=80=9C/etc/ssl=E2=80=9D direct= ory was gone. I have no idea how > that happened. I recreated the directory and the =E2=80=9CPEM=E2=80=9D fi= les 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 h= ave > one Win 8.1 and two Win 7 machines and on all of them, the FreeBSD machin= e is > gone. I did a complete reboot of every one of them but the problem contin= ues. > I made sure that Samba was working so that does no appear to be the probl= em. > If I manually enter the machine name in the address bar on a Windows mach= ine; > i.e., \\MyPC, I can access it. >=20 > This makes no sense. Other than having to do a complete reinstall of Free= BSD, > something I have had to do in the past when things got totally F/U, is th= ere > 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 --=20 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) --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----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----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--