[Samba] samba 3.0.23a => 3.0.26a - simple config, working fine

[Massimiliano Franco]

Hello Diego,

I effectively encountered problems with shares mappings.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the drives resolved it in all cases.

Max

Le jeudi 27 septembre 2007 à 07:32 -0400, Diego Julian Remolina a
écrit :
> Mostly a suggestion to a problem you may find to a change performed in 3.0.25 and above.
> 
> From: http://us1.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.25a.html
> 
> Changes to MS-DFS Root Share Behavior
> =====================================
> 
> Please be aware that the initial value for the "msdfs root" share
> parameter was changed in the 3.0.25 release series and that this
> option is now disabled by default.  Windows clients frequently require
> a reboot in order to clear any cached information about MS-DFS
> root shares on a server and you may experience failures accessing
> file services on Samba 3.0.25 servers until the client reboot
> is performed.  Alternately, you may explicitly re-enable the
> parameter in smb.conf.   Please refer to the smb.conf(5) man page
> for more details.
> 
> The sympton you will see is that some of the previously mapped network drives will give you a 
> permission denied on certain machines. Sometimes even a reboot will not fix it and basically you 
> need to un-mount then re-mount the share on the same drive letter and things will start working.
> 
> HTH and saves you some time... ;)
> 
> Diego
> 
> Massimiliano Franco wrote:
> > Hello Samba list,
> > 
> > I upgraded last week from 3.0.23a to 3.0.26a without any problem.
> > 
> > I use samba as Domain controller, shares, and printer server through
> > Cups. No Active directory or LDAP.
> > 
> > Upgrade went smoothly.
> > 
> > Thanks to all developers for their jobs. Very much appreciated here !
> > 
> > Max
> >