WinNT and auto-reconnect

[Aaron Knauf]

Hi all,

I have another weird one here.

When using a WinNT server, you can reboot the server while (win/NT)
clients are connected and the clients will automatically re-establish
their connections when the server comes back up.

With Samba you can do the same.

Here's the catch.  If you restart samba, then logout your client
*without accessing any of the previously opened shares* then the profile
is written back to the home directory and that share is left open on the
server (shown by smbstatus).  From this point on, no-one can log in to
the server (at least, not from the same workstation - I haven't tried it
with more than one).  Another samba restart is required to get people
logging in again.

TIA

ADK