[PLUG] SAMBA, WinXP SP3, and DOS programs

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at cyber-office.net
Thu Oct 21 22:57:28 UTC 2010


Anyone run into issues with SAMBA 3.0.33 (CentOS 5.5) and WinXP SP3 
running DOS based programs?

It is a long and tortuous tale to reach this point of woe so first I'll 
just give the symptoms.  When running tcpdump on the Linux box I see a 
bunch of "Unknown packet type" messages when a couple of DOS based 
programs try to start.  The programs, executables and data, reside on 
the server.

But other operations; connect to the server, access the drives, print, 
etc.; don't have errors.  Just the DOS programs.

The SAMBA configuration file is mostly unchanged from 7 or so years ago. 
A pretty simple set up: public folder/directory and print sharing via CUPS.

Any ideas, suggestions, clue-stick?


Rod
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