SAMBA does not work the same after latest Red Hat major update.

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 09/09/04

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    I have three machines connected together on a tiny LAN. Like this:

    A---B---C

    A runs either Windows 95 or RHL 9.
    B runs RHEL 3 ES with SAMBA on it.
    C runs RHL 7.3 with a printer on it.

    Until the latest major update to B (I got 180 packages) when A runs
    Windows 95, Windows applications could print on C. After the update, they
    cannot.

    B can print on C just fine, so that hardware connection is OK.
    When A runs RHL9 it can print on C just fine, so I infer that there is no
    coincidental hardware problem.

    Now among the 180 packages that were updated,
    Samba, Samba-client, Samba-common, and Samba-swat were all updated to
    3.0.6-2.3E.i386.rpm.

    Any idea what changed in there to stop printing?
    /etc/samba/smbpasswd is the only one that changed in that directory.
    The part of samba that allows Windows on C to examine (some) files on B is
    working; i.e., B is in the Network Neighborhood of C. 

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