I can’t disable Virtual Share Points?

[D-ma]

I have an Xserve which I’ve setup as a PDC.

I’ve read that virtual share points can cause problems.
The problem is that I can’t disable the “Enable virtual share points” within the Windows settings.

Every time I uncheck the tick box and click save it reappears,
it doesn’t matter whether the Windows service is running or not?

I thought that it may be a bug with Mac OS X 10.4.8,
but I updated to 10.4.10 last night and I’m still having the same problem.

Is there a line in smb.conf that I can edit in order to force the removal of virtual share points?

Any help or ideas on this one would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[pbrunnen]

Hello there,
I am experiencing the same issue with 10.5.4… so it looks like apple is nowhere close to interested in fixing this issue.

I just got off the line with support and I asked them about this… no answer worth posting about.

The directive is in the ‘/private/var/db/smb.conf’ config file. You can comment out (use # for smb.conf commenting) the entire block defining your windows home folder sharepoint.

i.e.
#[crappoint]
# path = /Users/Profiles
# browseable = no
# read only = no
# oplocks = yes
# strict locking = no

The problem that I found was that you can comment it out till your blue in the face, if you use the server admin to start or edit the SMB service, (or I think even sneeze…) it conveniently rewrites the files and conveniently without all those nifty commenting # characters.

Has anyone found a way around this? Or figured out where the settings are stored so that we can override the server admin application??

Thanks! -Cheers, Peter.

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