SAMBA Problem Sharing root (/) directory in Win2K SPK2 - Please Advise

[Furqan Jenkins]

Dear all,   I'm running a Windows 2000 SPK2 host and am attempting to create a SMB file share on a Red Hat v. 6.0 server using an account with a root (/) home directory. Network Neighbourhood hangs upon login in, and the root directory on the server becomes unstable, eg. an "ls -al /" command from linux will hang, as does a "df -k". Eventually something times out as fuctionality is restored in the / directory after a long wait, and the Windows hang is relieved when I stop the smbd server. In the /var/log/messages file, the amd service is indicated reporting that 'desktop.ini is not a valid host' and that /net is unreachable. I am guessing that the problem may be related to amd or its mapfile, and automatic filesystem mounting, but I have no experience in this area if this is the case. I have a basic filesystem setup with /var and /usr being separate. The problem does not occur when I change the account home directory to a dedicated filesystem mount point, eg. /usr, or any directory below one. Nor does it occur if I access the above (/ share) using linux smbclient. Sharing root from windows is the only problem. My version of SAMBA was 2.0.3. and I updated to the latest - v 2.2.5 - still to no avail.  Below is some basic system information. If it is not my system configuration then perhaps it is something that has been patched in later RH Linux releases, though I must consider downloading the latest version as a last resort. Please could someone advise?   Thank you.   Regards, Furqan Jenkins   smbd Hostname: linux smbd spawned by inetd. --------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat Linux version 6.0 SAMBA version 2.2.5 Windows 2000 Professional service pack 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------   -------------------------------------------- Errors from /var/log/messages --------------------------------------------   Sep 27 07:42:54 linux kernel: nfs: server pid531@linux:/net not responding, still trying Sep 27 07:42:58 linux kernel: nfs_revalidate_inode: /// getattr failed, ino=3, error=-512 Sep 27 07:43:02 linux kernel: nfs: task 1374 can't get a request slot Sep 27 07:44:03 linux amd[531]: Unknown host: desktop.ini Sep 27 07:44:03 linux amd[531]: Using NFS version 0, protocol udp on host desktop.ini   ------------------------------------------------------- Information in  /var/log/samba/log.smb -------------------------------------------------------   smbd version 2.0.3 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2002/09/27 15:39:50, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(219)  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are available.   ------------------- My /etc/fstab -------------------   /dev/hda1           /                   ext2                defaults             1 1 /dev/hda5           /usr              ext2                defaults              1 2 /dev/hda7           /var               ext2                defaults             1 2 /dev/hda6           swap            swap               defaults              0 0 /dev/fd0              /mnt/floppy    ext2                noauto               0 0 /dev/cdrom         /mnt/cdrom    iso9660           noauto,ro           0 0 none                  /proc             proc                defaults              0 0 none                  /dev/pts         devpts             mode=0622        0 0   -------------------- My /etc/mtab --------------------   /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /var ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0622 0 0 linux:(pid531) /net nfs intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map=/etc/amd.conf,dev=00000003 0 0