I don't know what is going on. I moved the Samba WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg file over to Windows XP Pro, but decided to try accessing the Mandrake directory shared by Samba once more before applying it. Apparently the threat of a fix was enough to correct the problem! Now I can move files both directions between Mandrake and Windows XP Pro via Samba without problems.

It seems like I upgraded Samba from a cooker site a day or two ago. Maybe that fixed the problems I was having before and I hadn't realized they were fixed. Whatever happened, Samba is working fine now with Windows XP Pro.

Incidently, there also are Samba Windows Registry files for Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, and Win2K in:

/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/Registry/

Comments at the begining of each indicate they are for different Samba-related purposes (Windows *.reg files are text files that can be viewed with a text editor). Anyone using Samba with any version of Windows probably should have a look at them.

-Bob

From: Paul Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Samba problems
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:52:47 -0600

On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:41 pm, Bob Brickey wrote:

> That tends to support the compatibility problem you are experiencing
> between Mandrake with Samba and Windows XP.
>
> This problem started with 9.1rc2. I routinely exchanged files between
> Mandrake with Samba and the same Windows XP Pro computer via the same VPN
> tunnel using both Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1rc1. Sorry, but I have been too busy
> to document this in Bugzilla, but thought I should comment when I saw your
> message.


I have a WinXP machine connected to samba running on 9.1rc2+cooker and it
works just fine.  I had some issues at first getting Windows to connect
right, but once I got the kinks out it works great.  One thing I did which
I'm not exactly sure will make a difference in your case is on the Windows
machine import the file
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7a/docs/Registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg into the
registry.  Saw some references to it on the web when I was trying to get
Windows to behave.  Anyway, works for me. *shrug*

--
Paul
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