On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:12:47AM +0100, Rob Mason wrote: > > Well, as I thought there was no LAN 'issue' as such. I've swapped cables, > NICS, > switches - and used the cross-over cable straight between the server and > a client. > > However, I believe I have diagnosed the fault. I've been monitoring > some of the traffic using my laptop and have inadvertently logged into > the domain as a domain user from my laptop - it worked fine. This got > me to thinking that the problem may be related to the ghosted images on > the XP clients (yes I generated a new SID). At first I thought it could > be the NIC drivers, so I changed one of the 3coms to a Intel. This > didn't chnage anything. The only other hardware common to all clients > was the video card - an NVIDIA TNT2 M64. A quick Google on 'NVIDIA > samba roaming profiles' got me: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=269732 > > After removing the NVIDIA driver from my test client the problem > completely vanished! Go figure! I'm completely at a loss for words. > Why video driver software would affect SMB comms is completely baffling. > I've put this one down to experience and will in future test hardware > combinations prior to adding into the LAN. > > Thanks for all the help and guidance, it was truly appreciated. And I > guess it was a network issue in the end!!!
Wow that's incredibly weird ! I wonder how the NVidia driver affects the SMB stack ? Windows truely is a nasty mess of twisty passages :-). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
