Folks I have a Windows XP (home edition) system here and whenever I make a connection to a file share, like \\samba-server\username, the XP system tries to make a connection to port 80 on that system (often tries 3-5 times). I turned on the apache webserver on the Samba server, and got the error log: windows-xp.ip.address - - [03/May/2002:16:10:30 +1000] "PROPFIND /username HTTP/1.1" 404 288 Does anyone know what it is trying to do? I am authenticating the user with NIS. thanks in advance tony
Tony, I see the same thing with my WinXP Pro machines. They also make several attempts to connect to port 80. I am still trying to figure out why. I think that this is part of the reason that there is a significant delay ( 20-30 sec ) when connecting to a share for the first time. XP attempts to connect 3x, each with at least a 3sec delay after receiving the instantaneous "dest unreachable" from my samba srver. Possibly explorer trying to show the folders with html content? ( Even though I have this option turned off in XP. ) Do you experience a delay on the first time that you open a particular share, but not afterwards? --Ben-- --On 05/07/02 06:20:48 PM +1000 tony.shepherd@aus.sun.com wrote: | I have a Windows XP (home edition) system here and whenever I make a | connection to a file share, like \\samba-server\username, the XP system | tries to make a connection to port 80 on that system (often tries 3-5 | times). ----------------------- Ben Griffith bgriffit@email.unc.edu -----------------------
I was getting the same thing with my machine, but I did eventually find out what it was. Windows XP has a Webdav redirector client that can allow you to map a share to a http server. It by default checks to see if the share is http everytime. To turn this feature off you need to turn of the webclient service in the administrative tools. Once turned off it will no longer check the http server when connecting to a share. Patrick Ben Griffith wrote:> Tony, > > I see the same thing with my WinXP Pro machines. They also make > several attempts to connect to port 80. I am still trying to figure > out why. I think that this is part of the reason that there is a > significant delay ( 20-30 sec ) when connecting to a share for the > first time. XP attempts to connect 3x, each with at least a 3sec delay > after receiving the instantaneous "dest unreachable" from my samba srver. > > Possibly explorer trying to show the folders with html content? ( Even > though I have this option turned off in XP. ) > > Do you experience a delay on the first time that you open a particular > share, but not afterwards? > > --Ben-- > > --On 05/07/02 06:20:48 PM +1000 tony.shepherd@aus.sun.com wrote: > > | I have a Windows XP (home edition) system here and whenever I make a > | connection to a file share, like \\samba-server\username, the XP system > | tries to make a connection to port 80 on that system (often tries 3-5 > | times). > > > > ----------------------- > Ben Griffith > bgriffit@email.unc.edu > ----------------------- >
Patrick Gunerud wrote:> > I was getting the same thing with my machine, but I did eventually find > out what it was. Windows XP has a Webdav redirector client that can > allow you to map a share to a http server. It by default checks to see > if the share is http everytime. To turn this feature off you need to > turn of the webclient service in the administrative tools. Once turned > off it will no longer check the http server when connecting to a share.Thanks Patrick. This is really handy to know. Do you know what else will break by turning off the webclient service?? tony PS. Yes Ben, I do see a slight hang. Once you have authenticated correctly once, it does not seem to try to connect again to the Web server.> > Patrick > > Ben Griffith wrote: > > > Tony, > > > > I see the same thing with my WinXP Pro machines. They also make > > several attempts to connect to port 80. I am still trying to figure > > out why. I think that this is part of the reason that there is a > > significant delay ( 20-30 sec ) when connecting to a share for the > > first time. XP attempts to connect 3x, each with at least a 3sec delay > > after receiving the instantaneous "dest unreachable" from my samba srver. > > > > Possibly explorer trying to show the folders with html content? ( Even > > though I have this option turned off in XP. ) > > > > Do you experience a delay on the first time that you open a particular > > share, but not afterwards? > > > > --Ben-- > > > > --On 05/07/02 06:20:48 PM +1000 tony.shepherd@aus.sun.com wrote: > > > > | I have a Windows XP (home edition) system here and whenever I make a > > | connection to a file share, like \\samba-server\username, the XP system > > | tries to make a connection to port 80 on that system (often tries 3-5 > > | times). > > > > > > > > ----------------------- > > Ben Griffith > > bgriffit@email.unc.edu > > ----------------------- > >