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On Sex Nov 25 05 19:00, Marco De Vitis wrote:> Hello,
> I have a Debian Sarge machine running Samba 3.0.14a as PDC and file server.
> Everything runs smoothly, except for a random problem: users (on
> Win2000Pro clients) are often seeing a red cross on the main network
> share, as if it was disconnected. This red X seems to come and go at
random.
>
I had that problem of a radom red X in the mapped drive too when the
server was a Win98 machine. The problem was hardware on this server.
> The red cross would not be a big issue itself, but it has an annoying
> consequence: when it appears, Windows thinks the connection is down, so
> if you save a file on the share while the red X is there you get an
> error dialog telling something like "The connection to the server has
> been reset. The file cannot be saved." (recalling from memory and
> translating from Italian, so the actual English message might be very
> different).
> The file is saved anyway, but users are obviously alarmed by the message.
>
> I had a look at my Samba logs (level 2) around the time when an user
> told me he noticed the red cross, but didn't find anything special,
> exception made for the following message:
>
> >[2005/11/25 17:14:51, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(314)
> > guest user (from session setup) not permitted to access this share
> > (COMMESSE)
>
> The user was already authenticated on the domain, and didn't logoff, so
> I can't understand where does this guest access come from.
> Can this message be related to my problem?
>
> Here follows an excerpt from my smb.conf, as returned by testparm, with
> some more or less sensible data <omitted>.
> BTW, the log file where I found that message was named
> "<client_name>..log", which is correct (see log file
setting below).
>
> I really hope someone can give me some clues, as this has been going on
> for months now.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---------------------
> [global]
> unix charset = UTF8
> workgroup = <domain name>
> server string = Server Linux, Samba %v
> passdb backend = tdbsam
> log level = 2 vfs:2
> syslog = 0
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.%U.log
> max log size = 0
> logon script = netlogon.bat
> logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
> logon drive = Z:
> domain logons = Yes
> os level = 64
> preferred master = Yes
> domain master = Yes
> enhanced browsing = No
> create mask = 0664
> directory mask = 0775
> hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
> ea support = Yes
> hide files = /desktop.ini/.DS_Store/
> veto oplock files = /NTUSER.DAT/
> map archive = No
> store dos attributes = Yes
> dos filemode = Yes
>
> [netlogon]
> path = /home/netlogon
> browseable = No
>
> [profiles]
> path = /home/samba/profiles
> read only = No
> create mask = 0600
> directory mask = 0700
> browseable = No
>
> [COMMESSE]
> path = <a valid path>
> invalid users = <one username>
> force user = <another username>
> read only = No
> vfs objects = recycle
> recycle:exclude = ~$* ~*.doc *~*.tmp *.bak
> recycle:touch = yes
> recycle:versions = yes
> recycle:keeptree = yes
> recycle:repository = .cestino
> ---------------------
>
> --
> Ciao,
> Marco.
>
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