Hi all, I'm using Samba 3.0.6 (on IRIX 6.5).
This is just a 'let you know what I've discovered' message really. I've just installed upgrade a laptop here to SP2 of Windows XP. It then started failing to make network connections. After much fiddling about, I tracked it down to DFS shares. This PC can now connect to the DFS root OKay, but doesn't recognise the entries in it as DFS 'pointers'. (Right-click, Properties on a DFS link would normally show the Target in a 'DFS' tab on the Properties dialog). Even more fiddling about proved that it was only when I accessed the Samba server by using a 'netbios alias' (as configured in the smb.conf) i.e. \\net\user\files didn't work (not recognised as DFS) but \\oxysig\user\files works fine (server's netbios name is 'oxysig', and 'net' is one (of several) netbios aliases) This laptop connected very happily to the DFS shares before SP2, and my dekstop machine (still SP1) connects happily too. As a workaround I've set 'smb ports = 139' which seems to solve the problem. I've found very few references to post-SP2 problems with DFS. The one I did find (MS article KB884020) isn't relevant as the shares aren't on the client. Another article [1] mentioned setting "EnableDfsLoopbackTargets"=dword:00000001 in the registry. This seemed to make no difference to my situation, but again I think that's because the shares aren't on the client. I'm not really looking for a solution here. And I've no idea whether this is a Samba-specific problem. If anyone has any insights, or would like more info, I can generate log files and packet captures if that would help. Mac Assistant Systems Adminstrator @nibsc.ac.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: +44 1707 641565 Everything else: +44 7956 237670 (anytime) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba