Andreas Achtzehn
2002-Mar-26 20:12 UTC
[Samba] Win 2k + mapped drives = short time disconnections
Dear list reader, we are having strange problems with our Samba 2.2.3a implementation. We run Windows 2000 SP2 as PDC clients. The clients connect to the Samba server without any further problems, but sometimes (twice to three times a day without any special occurences) the clients just get disconnected. The clients show the network-share icon with a little red X when Explorer is opened. After clicking on the icon, the share is reconnected and the users can continue to work. Sometimes this happens when user try to start software from "Start-->Execute..." when the executable is on the server. Windows just says, that the share is currently not available. Sometimes Excel spreadsheets are also a problem. When you try to open a spreadsheet using Explorer, Excel starts but hangs for a while. There are times when you even need to kill Excel before it shows the spreadsheet. We connect our workstations to the server by using a logon-script that contains lines like net use g: \\sv01\cdrom /PERSISTENT:NO (we used this option due to some problems we heard about with NT4) It this the problem or where do I have to search for it? Regards, A. Achtzehn -- { -- the linux-society -- } { Andreas Achtzehn | I } { IT consulting | D } { Hohe Giethorst 45 | - } { 46397 Bocholt - GERMANY | C } { achtzehn@linux-society.de | A } { cell phone: (+49) 179 - 49 48 706 | R } { office phone: (+49) 2871 - 26 83 763| D } { ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ }