Even a Debian machine when it’s not nursed by the loving hands of a system administrator for a long time could be a source of problems. I found myself upgrading samba from version 3.0.24 to 3.2.5 all at once, on our main fileserver. And suddenly all the windows machines here at school could not access the shares anymore. This problems seems not to be documented anywere. So I took a deep breath and start scrolling the huge samba changelog between the old and the new version. However I was lucky, the problematic change happened at version 3.0.25a. It seems that the default value of the msdsf root
option changed from true to false, but Windows cached this information. To solve the problem the solution is the usual: just reboot windows.
Samba upgrade headache
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexanderjb Alex B
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexanderjb Alex B
Samba upgrade headache
Even a Debian machine when it’s not nursed by the loving hands of a system administrator for a long time could be a source of problems. I found myself upgrading samba from version 3.0.24 to 3.2.5 all at once, on our main fileserver. And suddenly all the windows machines here at school could not access the shares anymore. This problems seems not to be documented anywere. So I took a deep breath and start scrolling the huge samba changelog between the old and the new version. However I was lucky, the problematic change happened at version 3.0.25a. It seems that the default value of the msdsf root
option changed from true to false, but Windows cached this information. To solve the problem the solution is the usual: just reboot windows.