1.9.17alpha5 and 1.9.17: keyboard unusable after domain logons

Simeon Walker simeon at bangor.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 14:40:37 GMT 1997


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> dear samba users,
> 
> is anyone else experiencing keyboard lockup from w95 after a domain logon
> user logs out from a samba server?  is anyone using 1.9.17 for domain
> logons _not_ experiencing keyboard lockup?
> 
> you can press escape, tab, shift-tab, but as soon as you type any
> letters, the caps-lock and scroll-lock keys flicker on, and you can't
> type in a username or password.
> 
> it's really bizarre.  unplugging the keyboard and re-plugging it in makes
> no difference.
> 
> we're clearly tickling something wierd in w95, and i'd like to nail it.
> 
> luke

I remember seeing this quite some time ago. I never found out a reason
why as I couldn't reliably reproduce the problem and have I seen it
in the past 6 months. However, I have never seen the problem in the 
Win 95 'B' (i.e. OSR2 and 2.1) release.

Simeon


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