[Samba]DOS app won't run off a Samba drive!

[Kohei Yoshida]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 21:03, Greg Conway wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got this very strange occurence....
> 
> A client has a Linux Samba Server - RedHat 7.1, Samba 2.2.1a. It is
> fileserving in place of an NT Server, providing networked drives to a
> network of only 3 client PC's - all Windows 98.
> 
> They currently have three networked DOS apps running off this Server, all
> multi-user, all with no problems.
> 
> However, when I added another in today, I got a shock!
> 
> The first user can log into the App. When the second user tries to login in,
> the Win98 client pauses for a while, then comes back with "unknown disc
> error on drive Z:" (that being the mapped drive).
> 
> If I moved the Server files to a network drive housed on a Windows PC,
> multiple users can log in okay! So the problem is with the Samba networked
> drive.
> 
> I have bought the client's files back home, and have been reproducing the
> problem here. It turns out that using Windows 2000 Pro multiple users can
> run the app as required - so the problem occurs just on Windows 98.
> 
> Has anybody ever experienced this before? Can anybody help?

Does this problem occur if you map the share to another drive other than
drive z?  Windows 9x uses drive z internally to map the netlogon share,
so if your logon script contains a line such as "net use z:
\\share\name", it may exhibit some unexpected behavior.  This only
happens with windows 95/98 according to Microsoft knowledge base.

Can you try using a different drive letter to see if it helps?

Kohei

> My SMB.CONF is included below, many many thanks for any help received!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg Conway.
> 
> 
> smb.conf:
> 
> [global]
> 
>         workgroup = DEMO
>         netbios name = DEMOLUX
> #       netbios aliases = GMLFAXALIAS1 GMLFAXALIAS2
>         server string = DEMOLUX SAMBA %v on %L
> 
>         security = domain
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
> #       unix password sync = no
>         smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> 
>         log file = /usr/local/logs/samba.log.%m
>         max log size = 1000
>         log level = 2
>         interfaces = 192.168.150.23 127.0.0.1
>         bind interfaces only = yes
>         socket address = 192.168.150.23
>         hosts allow = 192.168.150. 127.
> #               EXCEPT 192.168.150.1
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> #               IPTOS_LOWDELAY
> #               SO_BROADCAST
> 
>         load printers = no
> 
>         add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g samba -c Machine -d
> /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$
> 
>         logon path = \\DEMOLUX\profiles\%u
>         logon drive = U:
>         logon home = \\DEMOLUX\homes
>         logon script = login.bat
> 
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 64
>         preferred master = yes
>         domain master = true
>         local master = yes
> 
>         dns proxy = no
> 
>         wins support = yes
>         wins proxy = yes
> #       name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
> 
>         valid users = bill ben rod jane freddy
> 
> #       map archive = true
> #       map system = true
> #       map hidden = true
> 
> [homes]
>         browseable = no
>         read only = no
> 
> [printers]
>         path = /var/spool/uucppublic    # maybe change this!
>         min print space = 2048          # maybe this should be in [global]
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = no
> #       valid users = bill
> 
> [profiles]
>         comment = DEMOLUX profiles drive
>         browseable = no
>         path = /export/samba/profiles
>         writeable = no
>         volume = DEMOLUX-PROFILES
> 
> [config]
>         comment = DEMOLUX config drive
>         path = /export/samba/config
>         writeable = yes
>         volume = DEMOLUX-CONFIG
> 
> [data]
>         comment = DEMOLUX data drive
>         path = /17gb/data
>         read only = No
>         volume = DEMOLUX-DATA
> 
> [users]
>         browseable = yes
>         path = /export/samba/users
>         comment = user home directories
>         read only = no
>         volume = DEMOLUX-USERS
> 
> [netlogon]
>         comment = DEMOLUX NETLOGON directory
>         browseable = no
>         path = /export/samba/netlogon
>         read only = no
>         volume = DEMOLUX-NETLOGON
> 
> [install]
>         comment = DEMOLUX installation files drive
>         browseable = yes
>         path = /export/nobackup/install
>         volume = DEMOLUX-INSTALL
>         read only = no
> 
> 
> 
> 
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