samba - May 2003 - for what it's worth, I think I have inadvertently solved an old problem...

All,
	For the longest time I was having this strange folder recursion problem. It
persisted through many samba upgrades. The problem can be seen here in this
thread:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&frame=right&th=48f08dabcabb2877&seekm=9oglr1%241d66%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw#link1

I think my configuration was wrong, and as I was using security = server,
it's incorrectness was not apparent. I am using MSDFS and the roots are
hosted by NetBIOS aliases. I stumbled on the fix by trying to get security =
domain to work. In my %L.conf files, I had a line stating the NetBIOS name of
the alias, as in:

in the accounting.conf file I had:
 NetBIOS name = accounting

When I tried to get domain security to function, I could not get any of the
aliased servers to authenticate. Puzzling over this, I commented out this line
in the alias .conf files, and voila - I could now auth, and interestingly, the
recursion problem also disappeared. Seems kinda logical now, I guess. Hopefully,
this will help others pulling their hair out too.

Cheers,

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Christopher Barry
Manager of Information Systems
InfiniCon Systems
http://www.infiniconsys.com