[Samba] Trailing backslash issue with Windows Shares

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sat Aug 11 00:29:48 GMT 2007


On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:13:59AM +1200, Patrick Rynhart wrote:
> I have Samba 3.0.25b running as a PDC.  When opening a share on a
> Windows member server from an XP/Vista client, if I add a trailing
> backslash after a share name (e.g. \\WIN-SERVER\C$\) then an explorer
> windows appears immediately and correctly contains the share.  Without
> the backslash (e.g. \\WIN-SERVER\C$) I have observed delays of up to
> 20 seconds.  I have msdfs root = yes in my smb.conf.  Is this a known
> problem ?

Yeah, known bug someone reported - will be fixed for 3.0.25c.

Jeremy.


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