Difference between samba 2.0.0beta4 and NT4.0 ?

[Peter Pellkofer, Siemens AG, AUT GT 2]

Hi Samba-gurus,

I have a problem with samba 2.0.0beta4 on solaris 2.5.1
(samba 1.9.18p10 behaves the same) :

1. I have a ordinary text-file on a samba-share (foo.txt).
   NT4.0 sees the samba-share (\\sun100\tmp) as a netdrive
   with the letter K:. I've done a 'net use k: \\sun100\tmp'.

2. I can doubleclick in NT4.0-explorer on foo.txt and notepad
   comes up correctly.

3. I created a shortcut to file foo.txt, getting a file
   foo.txt.lnk on solaris. 

   In the explorere-property-sheets of the shortcut to foo.txt the sheet
   shortcut shows the target (in German : Ziel) of the shortcut,
   in this case K:\foo.txt.

   Doubleclicking on the shortcut iin explorer starts up notepad
   also. That's ok.

4. For some reason I want to eliminate the letter K: in the
   shortcut-properties and want to replace it with the UNC-name
   of the samba-server (\\sun100\tmp).

   I edited the shortcut-properties (replacing K:\foo.txt with
   \\sun100\tmp\foo.txt) and NT4-explorer accepted it (if the path
   is not correct the explorere gives me an error-message).

   If I then do a doubleclick on the shortcut, nothing happend,
   no notepad or error-message copmes up. A real Microsoft-NT-server can
   handle the UNC-name in the shortcut-properties, I've tried it.

   The samba-logfile says :

[1998/12/16 13:16:04, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(534)
  pp3021 opened file foo.txt.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
[1998/12/16 13:16:04, 2] smbd/close.c:close_file(163)
  cad closed file foo.txt.lnk (numopen=1)
[1998/12/16 13:16:04, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(534)
  pp3021 opened file foo.txt.lnk read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
[1998/12/16 13:16:04, 2] smbd/close.c:close_file(163)
  cad closed file foo.txt.lnk (numopen=1)

(My NT-account is pp3021, which is mapped via user.map to my
solaris-account cad)


Am I missing something, what smbd-configuration-parameters
are necessary or is it a bug or incompatibility within samba
(samba 1.9.18p10 behaves the same).

Any pointers are welcome !!!

Cheers,



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Peter Pellkofer
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