[Samba] Losing access to drive within XP

[Gary Dale]

Steven Cardinal wrote:
> This sounds more like an Windows problem, but it is an interaction with
> Samba and I'm hoping someone has an idea of where to start looking.
>
> 3 times in the past week I've had a user (different user each time) 
> come to
> me saying their P: drive is inaccessible, access denied. The P: drive 
> is set
> in the user's Active Directory Profile as their home directory
> \\sambaserver\home$\%username%
>
> If I have them access their home directory using a UNC through 
> explorer, it
> works fine. I can either have them unmap and remap P: or logout and 
> log back
> in again, and everything is fine. So, clearly, the Samba server is 
> accepting
> their credentials. But something is happening between Windows 2000 and 
> the
> Samba server causing Windows to get confused. Up until 3 weeks ago, we 
> were
> using a Windows 2000 file server, so Samba is the only new 
> introduction. I'm
> dedicated to getting this Samba solution to work, despite the crappy 
> support
> by BackupExec that I'm finding with my backups, but this is something I'd
> like to nip in the bud, if I can.
>
> I'm running 3.0.20b on SuSE 10.0. I'm using the Suse rpms, except I 
> rebuilt
> them to include the idmap_rid support. Here's my smb.conf

I'm not an expert at this, but I'd say your configuration is NOT the 
problem. Clearly, you are connecting. What is happening is an 
intermittent error so you need to generate some logs. Change the log 
level to something higher - say around 10 - and restart Samba. Next time 
a user loses contact, check the logs to see if there is anything reported.