Re: Samba problems

[Paul Waldo <pwaldo sysnet net>]

All in the affirmative.  On NT, I have a drive mapped to the share.  The
user has rwx permissions.  Only protocol is TCP/IP.  I'm stumped :-( 
Thanks.

Paul

> I'm not expert at troubleshooting samba problems because I've had so
> few
> problems with it :-)  but some windows stuff just won't run from a
> networked drive because of the way the default path is accesed.  Try
> "map
> network drive" on NT so the network samba share  is accesed as F: (or
> whatever) instead of \\server\share.  I often have this problem with
> self-extracting archives and sometimes the only solution is to copy
> them
> and run locally on the windows box.
> 
> Also, does your samba user have rwx permissions on your linux share
> directory?
> 
> As to your collisions and data corruption problems with NT but not
> when the
> same machine runs linux and nfs suggests bad ethernet drivers on NT.
> Also
> remove all protocols except TCPIP on the NT or windows boxes unless
> you
> really need them as the multi-protocol sends from windows will waste
> bandwidth for other clients and waste CPU on the win box slowing down
> transfers.
> 
> --wally.