[Samba] Need Samba 3.0.0 help

[lea at lig.net]

Hello all....

I need help and I'm just about at my wits end.
First let me state that I can not give logfiles in email since the Samba
servers are on the secure side of my world and contain sensitive information.
If by my stating my problem, I am hoping that someone will point me in certain
directions that I have not tried.

We have two samba servers on our site.  Both are running Samba 3.0.0. Sun
Server using Solaris 9 Kernel 112233-11.
First one is authenticating to a NT PDC. NT domain.  We have NT's that map
their drives to this and it works just fine....Users could not be happier.
It uses a VERY simple smb.conf file.  The shares are either home or data
directories that are automounted via NIS automounts on our Sun or SGI servers
.   Shares to our servers are functional.


Second one is authenticating to a Windows 2K Server. Windows 2K domain. We
have NT's and W2K's and XP's This does not work well.  It did but for some
reason it just stopped working.  We have no clue what the problem is, but have
to pinpoint the problem.

We work with various domains on our site and we do not have administrator to
the windows desktops.
We do have the Administrator rights on the Windows 2K server.  Not that this
helps....I have no clue what I am doing on the Windows side.

We use the SAME smb.conf file with a few changes.  The workgroup = 2Kdomain,
the netbios name is different.

Both servers were setup for:

[global]
  workgroup = <nt or 2k domain>
  encrypted passwords = yes
  update encrytped = yes
  password server = <one or two>
  passwd chat debug = yes
  log level = 5
  log file  = /var/adm/samba.log
  name resolve order = host
  deadtime = 10

[homes]
  path = /home/%u
  read only = No
  browseable = No

All other shares just like homes...very simple.

What happens is that we start the #2 Samba server...  smbd and nmbd start.... 
All ok...so far
On the windows side in a Command window  do a # net view \\two-samba-server...
  see shares.  there is hope!
Map network drive from NT or XP...   All ok so far
drill down to any directory....   it hangs on the windows side.
If I try to create a new folder... it hangs on the windows side.  If you look
at the Home directory on the Unix side, it created the directory.

You can kill the smbd process for the user on the unix server and it will
release the process from the Windows box but you then have to Disconnect the
network drive and remap it.  Not that you would want to since it does not
work.

I got the bright idea today to join the samba server to the domain.  So I did
that by issuing the command:
 net join -w 2Kdomain -U Administrator
It asked for the password..I put it in....
It stated:
Joined domain 2Kdomain

This did not work either...

So that is about it....Just a note about the LOG files....
Everytime I drill down in the directories, the logfile lists all the files of
that directory.  It even states that I was trying to open a .txt file even
though it didn't open.

Any ideas?  I have customers that are developing in the Win2K domain...their
customers are rather ticked...so I have to resolve this.

Thanks for any assistance...

Lea Bavaro
Lea at lig.net