Samba 2.2.1 Showstopper (was: Stste of Roaming Profiles)

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Thu May 17 23:32:05 GMT 2001


David Schwarz wrote:

> The Bug we have to fix, and is fixed in SP2, is the time that My Computer
> takes to display all the network shares when you click on it.
> 
> This problem is caused it seems by the workstation doing a RPC to see if
> there is a Job Scheduler on the server the share is on, before it shows the
> share.
> 
> The time taken for the share to then display, seems to be dependent on how
> long the RPC call takes to time out.
> 
> This problem is documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, but only on
> Netware and Win98 shares, I assume the bug is the same on Samba.

FYI: I just fixed the W2KSP2 joing a Samba 2.2.x PDC
bug. It will be in the 2.2.1 release (more testing
needed on the printer problem...).

I can log in correctly as a UNIX user and get my profile
loaded with W2kSP2.

If you have CVS access you should try it out (2.2 or HEAD).

Jeremy.

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