I used the software updater to install all the patches it found (without even looking, like an idiot). There were over 50 of them, since it's been a few months since I updated anything. Anyway, right after that process completed, and I rebooted the machine- the two XP clients in my office would not connect to their mapped drives. The Samba version is now 3.0.24-4.fc6. I regret that I don't know what it was before. I looked at the logs, and here's an excerpt from the log for one of the machines that won't connect: << [2007/05/08 23:11:25, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(950) abe (192.168.195.151) connect to service Books initially as user bill (uid=500, gid=500) (pid 4072) [2007/05/08 23:11:33, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1150) abe (192.168.195.151) closed connection to service Dev Tools [2007/05/08 23:11:33, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1150) abe (192.168.195.151) closed connection to service Books [2007/05/08 23:28:45, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators [2007/05/08 23:28:45, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751) create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users [2007/05/08 23:28:45, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785) create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators [2007/05/08 23:28:45, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751) create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users [2007/05/08 23:28:45, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(950) abe (192.168.195.151) connect to service Books initially as user bill (uid=500, gid=500) (pid 4198) [2007/05/08 23:28:57, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1150) abe (192.168.195.151) closed connection to service Books >> I don't have any idea what causes "create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users", or "create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators" or what to do about it. I assume that this is related to my new problem. I have been using Samba on this machine without incident for over 6 months. I have been using Samba for about 7 or 8 years- but I'm stumped! I need to fix this ASAP, as I have my work files on the server, and have mapped drives to the important directories. I had to transfer a bunch of them by FTP, but now I have to worry about synchronizing them. Thanks, Bill
This has got to be the "msdfs root" default value change. Clients require a reboot to notice this. Btw...this should have been filed with the Fedora folks and not us since it is basically a packaging change.