Samba and Windows 2000

[Ed Wilson]

Hi all,

I recently got a copy of Windows 2000 Beta 3 to see what its like. It seems
ok however I am having troubles accessing my Samba shares and was wondering
if anyone could help.

I am running the latest version of Samba on my linux box (kernel 2.2.9) and
share a number of directories. I use the encrypted password option in samba
(and make use of smbpasswd.) All of my older Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0
machines can access the shares with no problems. 

The Windows 2000 machine however takes several minutes when you click on a
samba share directory to display the contents (that window will hang for
this amount of time, then finally open) Also, I can't access my samba
printer share. This is very strange. It is obviously connecting ok because
as I said, after several minutes I can see the contents and use the
directory as normal. It just takes ages. The printer doesn't work at all
however. 

The Win2k machine can see the other computers (running 95, 98, NT) fine. It
can also see their printers. 

Is this a known bug between Win2k Beta and Samba? Seems to be a
compatibility issue here. Can it be fixed?

Thanks,

Ed. 

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Ed Wilson
ed at awt.com.au
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http://ed.awt.com.au
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