[Samba] Windows 98 Client or Linux problem?

[Robert Palmer]

I'm running Samba on a Linux 7.2 recently upgraded to 8.0 system. I have 
a problem that occurred
in 7.2 and also occurs in 8.0. My clients are Windows 98. If a client 
reboots then regularly it is
not possible to access files on the Linux server without restarting smb 
on the server. On the
Windows 98 clients, in network neighbourhood I get \\Robert is not 
accessible. No permission
to access resource. /etc/init.d/smb restart fixes it.

Samba is version 2.2.5-10

A tcpdump of a failure from the Linux server gives:

[root at robert root]# more smbbad.txt
22:11:43.940915 192.168.1.2.1027 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 
622:751(129) ack 351 win 7449NB
T Packet (DF)
22:11:43.943519 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1027: P 
351:390(39) ack 751 win 5840NBT
 Packet (DF)
22:11:43.944669 192.168.1.2.1027 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 
751:880(129) ack 390 win 7410NB
T Packet (DF)
22:11:43.947244 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1027: P 
390:429(39) ack 880 win 5840NBT
 Packet (DF)
22:11:44.141790 192.168.1.2.1027 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: . ack 429 
win 7371 (DF)

And a good one:

[root at robert root]# more smbgood.txt
[root at robert root]# tcpdump: listening on eth1
22:13:07.576710 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: S 
243664:243664(0) win 8192 <mss
1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
22:13:07.576978 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: S 
858133472:858133472(0) ack 2436
65 win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
22:13:07.577091 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: . ack 1 win 
8760 (DF)
22:13:07.577109 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 1:73(72) 
ack 1 win 8760NBT Pack
et (DF)
22:13:07.577278 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: . ack 73 win 
5840 (DF)
22:13:07.589575 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: P 1:5(4) ack 
73 win 5840NBT Packe
t (DF)
22:13:07.589733 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 
73:231(158) ack 5 win 8756NBT P
acket (DF)
22:13:07.591703 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: P 5:95(90) 
ack 231 win 5840NBT Pa
cket (DF)
22:13:07.592113 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 
231:390(159) ack 95 win 8666NBT
 Packet (DF)
22:13:07.600287 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: P 95:134(39) 
ack 390 win 5840NBT
Packet (DF)
22:13:07.601336 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 
390:549(159) ack 134 win 8627NB
T Packet (DF)
22:13:07.604263 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: P 
134:173(39) ack 549 win 5840NBT
 Packet (DF)
22:13:07.615761 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 
549:708(159) ack 173 win 8588NB
T Packet (DF)
22:13:07.576710 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: S 
243664:243664(0) win 8192 <mss
1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
22:13:07.576978 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.2.1032: S 
858133472:858133472(0) ack 2436
65 win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
22:13:07.577091 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: . ack 1 win 
8760 (DF)
22:13:07.577109 192.168.1.2.1032 > 192.168.1.5.netbios-ssn: P 1:73(72) 
ack 1 win 8760NBT Pack
et (DF)