[Samba] All works except MS Office 2003 Pro navigation of win . shortcuts to shares

[Bruno Guerreiro]

Hi,
That 4. a.m. periodicity is logrotate restarting your samba in order to
rotate it's logs...
The "Processing section..." appears everytime a new smdb starts (  every new
client connection to server, samba restarting, etc).
If you want to force it, just restart your samba. Remember that windows
caching may get in the way. So if you really want to be sure, restart also
the Win Client.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards.
Bruno Guerreiro



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Subject: [Samba] All works except MS Office 2003 Pro navigation of win.
shortcuts to shares


All works except MS Office 2003 Pro navigation of win.
shortcuts to shares

Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 on IBM e-series Xserver
Samba 3.0.9-1.3E.2  (PDC)
OpenLDAP backend
Used Idealx tutorial 
(Hats off to the Samba, OpenLDAP, Idealx teams!)

Because of the 100+ shares needed, and the fact that
Windows can only map drives to a maximum=letters of
the alphabet, I setup a read only share with windows
shortcuts (\\Samba\sharename)  pointing to all the
necessary shares.  Everything works like a charm
except Microsoft Office 2003 Pro.

Windows explorer, Wordpad, Notepad, even Autodesk5;
they all can browse (eg File-Save as) the shares via
the shortcuts and are either allowed or denied as per
the smb.conf permissions.  However, MS Office 2003 Pro
can only *see* and follow the shortcuts which are
pointing to shares which have
valid users = @"Domain Users"  (everyone)


[sharename]
....
valid users = @accounting

Even if a logged in user belongs to a group with
permissions on a share Office still does not *see* the
shortcut to that share.  (If when doing file-saves as
or file-open and selecting all files, Office will try
to open shortcut as a file and not follow it to a
share).  

Tried changing permissions to everyone but shortcut
still not visible.  The work-around is to browse to
share using explorer and rightclicking new Word
document - Then Word will be able to see contents of
directory and to File-save as into that share.  It
will even remember location through recent files...

Then after tearing most of my hair out, a test share I
setup suddenly appeared from within Word!
Ok, check the logs.  Of course I was restarting samba
several times and the /var/log/samba/smbd.log shows
the "Processing section..." for each share every time
I restarted Samba.  However the /var/log/samba/log.
shows the "Processing section..." at odd intervals
with no apparent periodicity (except Sunday mornings
at 4am).  My test share showing up within Word seemed
to coincide with a "Processing section..." event.

So I changed permissions to all shares to @"Domain
Users" (everyone) and waited for the "Processing.."
event.   It happened Sunday morning 4am but Word still
does not see the shortcuts.  Ok. My test share had
browseable = Yes so I changed all shares to browseable
= Yes and am waiting for the event to occur again. 
Waiting....   Waiting...

So my question: Is there a way of forcing this event
to occur?

smb.conf
...
log level = 2
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%U
...

smbd.log
....
[2005/05/16 09:13:36, 0] smbd/server.c:main(760)
  smbd version 3.0.9-1.3E.2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team
1992-2004
[2005/05/16 09:13:36, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[homes]"
[2005/05/16 09:13:36, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[netlogon]"
[2005/05/16 09:13:36, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[profiles]"
[2005/05/16 09:13:36, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[printers]"
[2005/05/16 09:13:36, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section.... 
(....ditto for all the 100+ shares)

log.
...
  Processing section "[homes]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[netlogon]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[profiles]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[printers]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[print$]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[all_staff_exchange]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[fileplan]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[test]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[A00admin_general]"
[2005/05/10 14:02:54, 2]
param/loadparm.c:do_section(3421)
  Processing section "[A01admin_Assoc....
(....ditto for all the 100+ shares)



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