[Samba] Samba-Citrix compatability

[DAVIES Rob]

G'day,

We are having problems when connecting to our Solaris 8 server Zeus from our Windows 2000 Terminal Servers. We are running Samba 2.2.8a on the unix box and are finding that from time to time people are having difficulty opening files from shares on this server. They also have difficulty mapping network drives. It reports errors such are "file doesn't exist". However, we have had no such problems from our Windows workstations, so it looks to be Citrix / Terminal Server related. It appears to be related to sessions remaining there at the back-end after they disconnect, hence when they reconnect it gets confused. If we kill the smbd processes at the back-end that correspond to those old connections they are able to connect again. We had the same problem with Samba 2.2.2, and upgrading to 2.2.8a didn't help. A number of people have reported similar problems in Google Groups. Is this a known bug / issue ? If so, is there a patch or release of Samba that would resolve this issue ?

Cheers
Rob
Rob Davies
System Administrator
Tenix Defence Systems - Electronic Systems Division

Second Ave
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MAWSON LAKES  SA  5095

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email Rob.Davies at tenix.com