I don't know how this worked, but if I point "My Documents" to
\\SERVER\homes everything seems to be OK. I still don't know why
\\SERVER\robert bombed out. I'd be interested to know why.
"Robert S" <robert_s@emailme.net.au> wrote in message
news:bsl7mn$in4$1@sea.gmane.org...> I have a server running slackware 9.1 and samba samba-2.2.8a and have
WinXP> Home (SP1) on a client machine. I have all of my users "My
documents"
> pointing at a subdirectory of their home directories (ie.
> /home/USER/.documents). All of the users are able to use this with no
> problems EXCEPT me. When I log in to my user profile in Windows, the
system> tray takes about 5 minutes to load up. If I try to log out it hangs for
> about 5 minutes during this time. I am able to prevent this behaviour by
> pointing "My Documents" to a folder on the local (C:) hard drive
and not
> using my samba share. Also - when I right-click on "My
Documents" (in
XP),> go to "Properties" and change "Target" to
\\SERVER\robert, it hangs for
ages> when I press Apply or OK. I recently reinstalled my entire XP hard drive
> and this problem still ocurs. Presumably its not an XP setup problem.
> Upgrading samba to 3.0.0 makes no difference.
>
> My user name is robert, the client computer is called CLIENT and the
server> is called SERVER (the names are fictitious).
>
> Sorry about putting a Windows question on a Unix newsgroup, but the aim of
> samba is to allow these systems to speak to each other!
>
> My /var/log/samba/CLIENT.log looks like this (as you can see there are
some> strange entries that are specific to my user name (they don't apply to
other> users):
>
> [2003/12/28 11:03:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)
> CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service robert.dll
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388)
> Unable to get printer status for rober - client-error-not-found
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)
> CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service rober
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388)
> Unable to get printer status for robert.dll - client-error-not-found
> [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252)
> CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service robert.dll
>
> Here are the relevant parts of my smb.conf:
>
> [global]
> workgroup = HOME
> netbios name = SERVER
> server string = Samba Server
> encrypt passwords = Yes
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> log level = 0
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> lock dir = /var/lock/samba
> printing = cups
> printcap name = cups
> invalid users = root
> browseable = No
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> path = /home/%S/.documents
> read only = No
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700
>
>
>
>
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