[Fwd: WinNT and auto-reconnect]

[Aaron Knauf]

Thanks, Luke - I am now working around this issue by using security = user.

ADK

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> this is due to a bug in windows nt clients.  microsoft is aware of the
> problem, they had a developer looking into it the last time it was
> reported (six months ago on ntbugtraq), related to the WNetWkstaUserEnum
> function.  no further information or response has been reported that i am
> aware of.
>
> luke
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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