[Samba] Any Windows XP SP2 RC2 Experience?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Jul 20 21:47:05 GMT 2004


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Jason Balicki wrote:
| Earlier today I installed Windows XP SP2 RC2 onto
| two of my production machines.  My test boxes were
| fine, but the two production machines I installed
| them on failed to print in Adobe Reader and IE.
|
| I've got a Samba 2.2.9 DC with a CUPS printing
| backend.
|
| Anyway, I've backed off the SP on both production
| machines, and I'm going to try to replicate the
| issue with another test box, but I was wondering
| if anyone has any experience with this service
| pack and a Samba based network?  Any hints or
| gotchas you want to share?

We've reported a bug in XP sp2 rc2 to MS wither
regards to the print change notify code.  It was
triggering a crash in smbd (our fault) by doing a
notify operation incorrectly (ms's fault).

This was reproduced using Samba 3.0.x.  I think
the same code exists in the 2.2.x tree.




cheers, jerry
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