On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > 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 :-).
Just as an update look at this page : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/28bc0e7084207096/c7178db6ed9133f8%23c7178db6ed9133f8?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=0&num=3 It happens against Windows servers too. The Microsoft premium support suggestion - "wipe and reinstall" :-) :-). I'm feeling really bitter about Windows at the moment. I had to *PHYSICALLY REMOVE A DISK* from a spyware infected Windows 2000 box and mount on a clean Linux box to remove a "rootkit" level driver from the spyware in order to delete it..... What a waste of a saturday night ! Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
