samba - Feb 2005 - Disconnected Drives Reconnecting but red cross remains on share problem with clipart

When I last posted the email below the reconnect issue did not seem to be
causing any problems, we have subsequently had some users reporting that
they cannot open clipart. This only seems to happen when the red cross is
displayed, if users perform a:-
?
NET USE H: /D
?
which removes the drive
then they preform a:-
?
NET USE H: \\SAMBASERVER\HOME <<file://\ SAMBASERVER\HOME>> 
?
The drive is reconnected and clipart then works, does anybody know of a
solution for this problem.
?
Thanks very much
?
To: samba@lists.samba.org@SMTP@HOST
From: Keith Allen/Safeway@Safeway
Date: 08/17/2004 01:03PM
Subject: [Samba] Disconnected Drives Reconnecting but red cross remains on
share
I am running Samba version 2.2.8a, everything seems to be running great. I
have however noticed that whenever shares go into the disconnected state i.e
the red cross in windows, They still allow you?to use the drives i.e double
click open files etc but the red cross remains on the resource and net use
at the command prompt also shows the drive as disconnected even though you
can access it.
Is there a way of solving this problem i.e to remove the red cross when the
resource is accessed that same way as it does on our windows servers.
?
Thanks very much in anticipation of a solution.
?
Keith?Allen
Thanks Keith Allen


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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:06:52PM -0000, keith_allen@safeway.co.uk
wrote:
> 
> When I last posted the email below the reconnect issue did not seem to be
> causing any problems, we have subsequently had some users reporting that
> they cannot open clipart. This only seems to happen when the red cross is
> displayed, if users perform a:-
> ?
> NET USE H: /D
> ?
> which removes the drive
> then they preform a:-
> ?
> NET USE H: \\SAMBASERVER\HOME <<file://\ SAMBASERVER\HOME>> 
> ?
> The drive is reconnected and clipart then works, does anybody know of a
> solution for this problem.
> ?
> Thanks very much
> ?
> To: samba@lists.samba.org@SMTP@HOST
> From: Keith Allen/Safeway@Safeway
> Date: 08/17/2004 01:03PM
> Subject: [Samba] Disconnected Drives Reconnecting but red cross remains on
> share
> I am running Samba version 2.2.8a, everything seems to be running great. I
> have however noticed that whenever shares go into the disconnected state
i.e
> the red cross in windows, They still allow you?to use the drives i.e double
> click open files etc but the red cross remains on the resource and net use
> at the command prompt also shows the drive as disconnected even though you
> can access it.
We have done some work on this issue in the 3.0.10 or above release I think.
I'd suggest trying the 3.0.11rc1 candidate.

Cheers,

	Jeremy.

red cross means no problem, it just indicates that:

1) drive is mapped from network
2) drive is not active for a while

additional information can be found at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297684
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;138365

>
> When I last posted the email below the reconnect issue did not seem to be
> causing any problems, we have subsequently had some users reporting that
> they cannot open clipart. This only seems to happen when the red cross is
> displayed, if users perform a:-
> ?
> NET USE H: /D
> ?
> which removes the drive
> then they preform a:-
> ?
> NET USE H: \\SAMBASERVER\HOME <<file://\ SAMBASERVER\HOME>>
> ?
> The drive is reconnected and clipart then works, does anybody know of a
> solution for this problem.
> ?
> Thanks very much
> ?
> To: samba@lists.samba.org@SMTP@HOST
> From: Keith Allen/Safeway@Safeway
> Date: 08/17/2004 01:03PM
> Subject: [Samba] Disconnected Drives Reconnecting but red cross remains on
> share
> I am running Samba version 2.2.8a, everything seems to be running great. I
> have however noticed that whenever shares go into the disconnected state
i.e
> the red cross in windows, They still allow you?to use the drives i.e double
> click open files etc but the red cross remains on the resource and net use
> at the command prompt also shows the drive as disconnected even though you
> can access it.
> Is there a way of solving this problem i.e to remove the red cross when the
> resource is accessed that same way as it does on our windows servers.
> ?
> Thanks very much in anticipation of a solution.
> ?
> Keith?Allen
> Thanks Keith Allen
>
>
>
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