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I'm probably looking for suggestions on tracing problems rather than a specific fix, since I don't see any links relevant to my problem. We have a Samba PDC with an ldap backend, serving about 100 active users and another 400 relatively inactive lab machines that connect once at the beginning of the day and possibly load a file or two from a network share. We have a problem where

I have a lab with 24 pc's I'm trying to reimage. I have a DOS network boot disk (version==win98) and all clients connect to the Samba share. When I start the image download with xcopy, the session appears to hang immediately. With one or two, a small amount of hard drive activity will continue, but the file copy will fail. When I connect to a win2k share on similar server hardware, I

A problem has come up in our computer labs. We use one account for a given lab, except in the main lab where students have individual accounts. In either case, printing is only intermittently successful. We use a "net use lpt1 \\server\printer" command in a batch file run at login to connect the printer. The command completes successfully. The CUPS status page for the printer