I have been chasing down a problem where PC logins to our Samba server
get disconnected from their printer and file shares. Here is the sequence
of events:
User logs in to PC
File shares from NetApp file server are mapped and mounted
Printer shares from Samba server go into "opening" state, may or
may not become "Ready"
Later, mapped network drives are "Disconnected Network Drives" and
printers may report "Ready" but printing fails
Opening a mapped network drive brings it out of "Disconnected" state
but but it will go back to "Disconnected" after a few minutes
Opening a printer window from "Printers and Faxes" may re-initialize
the printer but may not
Here's our environment:
server room:
Samba 3.0.21
NetApp Release 7.3.4 file server
client networks:
Winows XP clients
IPsec tunnel (running on pfSense 2.0 firewalls) connects server room
to client networks
I haven't been able to find anything helpful in web searches, although
there are a number of hits on similar problems.
Carl G. Riches
IT Manager
Department of Biostatistics
Box 357232 voice: 206-616-2725
University of Washington fax: 206-543-3286
Seattle, WA 98195-7232 internet: [email protected]
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