[Fwd: Re: [Samba] Corruption of floppy link when upgrading to 3.0.0]

[Sam Seaver]

forgot to 'cc' this

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Samba] Corruption of floppy link when upgrading to 3.0.0
Date: 	Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:04:36 -0600
From: 	Sam Seaver <samseaver at northwestern.edu>
To: 	Chris Jones <CJones at gpcom.com>
References: 	<6F382B556628D511B07F0002B32FF0BA82F4FA at gpc_exg.gpcom.com>



Actually, I spoke too soon...I'm not sure I get this:

Looking up 'unix charset' it says that you're defining the charset that 
your server is using..

but looking up CP850, which is Code Page 850, this is the charset for 
MS-DOS, so how can you say that your unix is using an MS-DOS charset??

S

Chris Jones wrote:

>Actually I did have this, it was related to charset in someway or another.
>Problems displaying the 1/2 sign. Adding "unix charset = CP850" to my
>smb.conf fixed it.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Seaver [mailto:samseaver at northwestern.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:19 AM
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: [Samba] Corruption of floppy link when upgrading to 3.0.0
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>Here's the case, I've got several (5) win2k machines being served by a 
>Samba PDC (RH9).
>
>I did an upgrade of samba:
>
>service smb stop
>cd /path/samba-3.0.0/source
>make install
>service smb start
>
>Everything seems to work fine EXCEPT...all the floppy links in all the 
>SendTo directories (and Recent, if used) in all the profiles on the 
>Samba PDC were corrupted.
>This corruption prevented any log-in, because the win2k machines would 
>complain that they couldn't copy the file (the name appeared as long 
>gibberish).
>
>When I removed all these links, the log in worked just fine.
>
>Has anyone else had this?
>
>
>The only thing I can think of that may have caused it, is that a 
>colleague logged in (forgetting he wasnt supposed to) to the domain, 
>just before I stopped the service.
>He was still 'logged in' after I restarted the upgraded Samba (I had not 
>seen his log-in), and I couldn't log in to the domain from another machine.
>
>I made the machine leave and re-join the domain, and still couldnt 
>log-in, it was then that my colleague realised why his machine was 
>acting funny, logged out, and told me.
>I restarted the smb service all over again, and this time everything 
>worked, but for the corrupted floppy links.
>
>Cheers
>S
>
>  
>