[revernd]

Has anyone else noticed flaky use of samba since the patches from MS on dec14 KB885836, 885249, 873339, 885835, 870763, 889293? I find there has been login problems accessing shares since these patches using samba-2.0.10-1.62 and winxp clients.

Anyone have any information or experienced a similar issue with any work arounds?

[shadowcat]

Hello and welcome to TSG!

I've also had problems as well. It worked for one day when I did a fresh install of Gentoo (2.6.9-r9 kernel) and have no idea what allowed it to work. I can't get back into it because I messed around with getting the wireless to work, so now Gnome freezes. When I get that all sorted out, I'll try and see what happened to Samba that allows it to work with Windows shares with SP2.

[revernd]

it is pretty peculiar. We are not running SP2 as of yet.
If we map the drive stating connect as a user and not the guest then it will map the drive. People cannot browse to the samba to connect to folders. ie. Can go to \\samba but then cannot browse to any folder as it will not permit them access with the proper password. I will be trying 3.0.10 to see if this helps.

[shadowcat]

Sorry I took so long to get back to you -- I completely messed up Gentoo and had to do another fresh install.

I've got Samba 3.0.9-r1 and Gnome 2.8.1-r1 running. I have no problems accessing the Window shares with Samba (using "Network Servers" in Gnome). I'm using the 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 kernel that has network sharing with Windows configured into it (no smb.conf to configure).

My guess it's the older version of Samba that's causing the problem. I was using 3.0.7 or 3.0.8 when I had trouble with Windows SP2.