Win98 Shutdown problems

[Graham Mitchell]

Check article number Q238096 at the MS website:
http://www.support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/0/96.ASP
I've had similar problems which were not Samba related.
Installing the latest NIC driver on the Win98 end cured one of them.

 Graham


Alex King wrote:

> We have a problem with Win98 clients not shutting down properly.  We are
> running samba at ~40 isolated sites, a mixture of 2.07 and 2.05a on intel
> debian systems.  There are usually less than 10 clients at each site.
>
> The clients are set up to log on to an NT domain, and they run a script
> generated by the server to mount between 3 and 8 shares from the server,
> depending on their group membership.  Ie, NET USE N: //SERVER/NETWORK etc.
>
> I'd be interested to hear from people who are using Win98/samba in similar
> setups and whether they are having similar shutdown problems.
>
> Does anyone have any experience at troubleshooting this kind of problem?
> Where should I look?  I've already searched mailing lists etc, and I'd
> really appreciate a pointer in the right direction.
>
> The problem seems to affect both Win98 and Win98SE, and the Win98SSE
> shutdown supliment fix/patch thing doesn't help.  It is intermittant, but
> happems more often than not. I've noticed that logging off on a W98
> machine and then shutting down with C-A-D and clicking shutown seems to
> increase the likelyhood of a clean shutdown, but this doesn't allways work.
> It seems to be due to the interaction between samba and Win98, because the
> macines in question shut down ok if they are isolated from the network.
>
> This shutdown problem is a serious problem for me, I'd be willing to put
> significant effort into fixing it (even looking into the code)  I realise
> that the problem is likely be Win98 more than samba, but if there is
> anything I can do to work around it I need to do it.
>
> The servers have a mixture of network cards, 3c905, eepro, rtl8138 etc.
> The clients are a mixture also, but we have many (cough) presarios with
> realtek 8139 chipset ethernet cards.
>
> ; /etc/smb.conf
>
> [global]
>    debug level = 2
>    printing = bsd
>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>    hide files = AppleVolumes
>    load printers = yes
>    guest account = nobody
>    invalid users = root
>    security = user
>    workgroup = WORKGROUP
>    server string = %h server (Samba %v)
>    socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    smbpasswd file = /etc/smbpasswd
>    wins support = yes
>    os level = 65
>    domain master = yes
>    local master = yes
>    preferred master = yes
>    logon script = scripts\%U.bat
>    logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
>    logon drive = H:
>    logon home = "\\%N\%U"
>    dns proxy = no
>    preserve case = yes
>    short preserve case = yes
>    domain logons = yes
>    unix password sync = True
>    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>    passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n
> *Password\schanged.* .
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    read only = no
>    create mask = 0700
>    directory mask = 0700
>
> [profiles]
>    comment = User Profiles
>    browseable = yes
>    writeable = yes
>    path = /var/samba/profiles
>    read only = no
>    create mask = 0700
>    directory mask = 700
>    root preexec = /var/samba/bin/create-profile %U
>
> [netlogon]
>    path = /var/samba/netlogon
>    writeable = no
>    guest ok = no
>    root preexec = /var/samba/bin/makelogonscript %U %m
>
> [network]
>    comment = comon folder
>    writable = yes
>    path = /var/samba/network
>    create mask = 777
>    directory mask = 777
>
> ; other shares follow....