Win98 Shutdown problems

[Johan Östensson]

I had thid problem with a client a few months ago on a HP laptop. It turned
out to be problems with the powersaving features of win98. With everythinh
disabled it it worked as it should. Problem was that on a laptop those
features could be useful sometimes...

/johan

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Matthew Geddes [mailto:mgeddes at xavier.sa.edu.au]
> Skickat: den 14 september 2000 01:50
> Till: johan.ostensson at orebro.lantmen.se; Alex King
> Kopia: samba-ntdom at us4.samba.org
> Ämne: Re: Win98 Shutdown problems
> 
> 
> Alex King wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> You can't look at the code. Windows 98 is a closed source 
> product. There
> are a number of issues with Windows 98 not shutting down, try 
> installing
> all of the relevant Microsoft patches. This is not a Samba 
> problem, but
> a problem with your client. Apparently setting the "Assign IRQ to VGA"
> option in the CMOS helps.
> 
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> 
> Matthew Geddes
> Network Manager
> Xavier College
> Gawler, SA
> 
> ...And by the way, Lars Kneschke's Samba TNG FAQ is at
> http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/faq/index.php3
>