samba - Aug 2003 - Microsoft Windows Network: The local device name is already in use.

Hi,

We are using samba 2.2.8.1 on Unix 4.3.3.0 and getting this error.
We have both win 2000 and XP.  I get this error on XP.   Never had the
problem on Win98 and previous versions.
An error occurred while reconnecting O: to \\dev\growrg
Microsoft Windows Network :  The local device name is already in use.
The connection has not been restored.

We can fix the problem by removing all mapped drives, reboot and remap.
We have to do this every day.  I want to fix this problem.

In regedit we changed the enableplaintextpassword to the value of 1 to
get the connection.

I have searched the samba archive and internet with no success .

Thank you,
-Rich

Don't switch to plain text passwords! It doesn't work.... well it does
the
first time but if/when the client tries to re-establish the connection it 
will not authorise.

Use encrypted passwords and add your users with the smbpasswd command on the 
Samba server

On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 4:22 pm, Richard Grow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using samba 2.2.8.1 on Unix 4.3.3.0 and getting this error.
> We have both win 2000 and XP.  I get this error on XP.   Never had the
> problem on Win98 and previous versions.
> An error occurred while reconnecting O: to \\dev\growrg
> Microsoft Windows Network :  The local device name is already in use.
> The connection has not been restored.
>
> We can fix the problem by removing all mapped drives, reboot and remap.
> We have to do this every day.  I want to fix this problem.
>
> In regedit we changed the enableplaintextpassword to the value of 1 to
> get the connection.
>
> I have searched the samba archive and internet with no success .
>
> Thank you,
> -Rich