WinNT and auto-reconnect

[thwartedefforts at wonky.org]

This is related to a known NT bug that Microsoft won't fix because, I'm told:

1- it doesn't effect NT servers in the same way it effects Samba.
2- MS can't reliably reproduce it (I think this claim is bogus).

Here's references to when I was looking at this:

http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-technical/2119.html
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-technical/2120.html
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-technical/2128.html

2120 is especially interesting, where Luke points out that it's listed on NTBUGTRAQ.

Also, the thread that starts at

http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-ntdom/4281.html
especially the following two
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-ntdom/4285.html
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-ntdom/4298.html

On Mon, 30 August 1999, Aaron Knauf wrote:
> 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