samba - Dec 2009 - Problem with Snow Leopard and Samba

We have a user who purchased a Mac Book Pro with OSX 10.6.2.
Everyday he has a problem with one or another Samba Server.  One day it's
FileShare1 , the next day it's ProductionData Server.
I use Windows and Linux and neither has  a problem connecting to these
servers.  He has XP in VMWare Fusion and that works fine.  But about every
other day he comes and says some server won't allow him to connect.
Sometimes a reboot will fix the problem.
We are using Samba PDC with LDAP backend and these are member servers he is
logging into.
Today he is getting an error that the login is incorrect on one Member
Server, yesterday he would log into a server and it would hang about 3 deep
into a directory tree and require reboot of the system.
Eventually that error just seemed to go away.
Anyone know of some glitch or issue with software on OSX 10.6.2?
I am not familiar with MACs  and didn't think that there would be an issue,
but thought someone out here may know of a quirk or something that would
cause this type of problem and how to resolve it.

Thanks,

P.S.  Are Snow Leopards an endangered species?  Do I need a license to shoot
a Mac Book  Pro? :)

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Clark Johnston might have said:
> We have a user who purchased a Mac Book Pro with OSX 10.6.2.
> Everyday he has a problem with one or another Samba Server.  One day
it's
> FileShare1 , the next day it's ProductionData Server.
> I use Windows and Linux and neither has  a problem connecting to these
> servers.  He has XP in VMWare Fusion and that works fine.  But about every
> other day he comes and says some server won't allow him to connect.
> Sometimes a reboot will fix the problem.
> We are using Samba PDC with LDAP backend and these are member servers he is
> logging into.
> Today he is getting an error that the login is incorrect on one Member
> Server, yesterday he would log into a server and it would hang about 3 deep
> into a directory tree and require reboot of the system.
> Eventually that error just seemed to go away.
> Anyone know of some glitch or issue with software on OSX 10.6.2?
> I am not familiar with MACs  and didn't think that there would be an
issue,
> but thought someone out here may know of a quirk or something that would
> cause this type of problem and how to resolve it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> P.S.  Are Snow Leopards an endangered species?  Do I need a license to
shoot
> a Mac Book  Pro? :)
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I have seen issues with Microsoft Office for the Mac trying to connect to
shares of the same name on multiple servers. The Microsoft applications
gets confused.

- $server1
  - ProductionData
- $server2
  - ProductionData

My user could not open for writing, and other permission errors, an
Excel file on one of the shares because the shares have the same name.

Mike

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mike Eggleston <mikeegg1 at mac.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Clark Johnston might have said:
>
> > We have a user who purchased a Mac Book Pro with OSX 10.6.2.
> > Everyday he has a problem with one or another Samba Server.  One day
it's
> > FileShare1 , the next day it's ProductionData Server.
> > I use Windows and Linux and neither has  a problem connecting to these
> > servers.  He has XP in VMWare Fusion and that works fine.  But about
> every
> > other day he comes and says some server won't allow him to
connect.
> > Sometimes a reboot will fix the problem.
> > We are using Samba PDC with LDAP backend and these are member servers
he
> is
> > logging into.
> > Today he is getting an error that the login is incorrect on one Member
> > Server, yesterday he would log into a server and it would hang about 3
> deep
> > into a directory tree and require reboot of the system.
> > Eventually that error just seemed to go away.
> > Anyone know of some glitch or issue with software on OSX 10.6.2?
> > I am not familiar with MACs  and didn't think that there would be
an
> issue,
> > but thought someone out here may know of a quirk or something that
would
> > cause this type of problem and how to resolve it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > P.S.  Are Snow Leopards an endangered species?  Do I need a license to
> shoot
> > a Mac Book  Pro? :)
> > --
> > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> > instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
>
> I have seen issues with Microsoft Office for the Mac trying to connect to
> shares of the same name on multiple servers. The Microsoft applications
> gets confused.
>
> - $server1
>  - ProductionData
> - $server2
>  - ProductionData
>
> My user could not open for writing, and other permission errors, an
> Excel file on one of the shares because the shares have the same name.
>
> Mike
>
 Thanks for the info

 But I haven't even gotten to that problem yet. :) Oh joy the day.

This is just simply connecting to different named shares on differently
named servers.

Maybe I need some tutoring on a Mac also, anyone have any book
recommendations.  This one computer seems to be taking up about 10% of my
time in the last 2 weeks.
I'd be looking for information on log files and other such troubleshooting
help.