samba - Jul 2005 - WinXP looking for *.dll share names?

Hi folks,

	Over the last few weeks, one of our WinXP machines (of many) has
started generating errors like the following in our log files:

Jul  5 09:43:30 blah smbd[13180]:   blah-xp (192.168.1.1) couldn't find 
service sharename.dll 

where "sharename" is a real share name that this user should be
mapping.  We see lots of these errors, one for each share
the user tries to map.  In each case, the share name is right,
except that it has ".dll" appended to it.

	Searching through google, I see references to similar
problems, but no clear resolution.  Is this an XP thing, a samba
thing, or a virus-infected computer?

	Thanks in advance for any help.

						Bryan
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==========================================================================Bryan
Wright                |"If you take cranberries and stew them like
Physics Department          | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes 
University of Virginia      | than rhubarb does."  --  Groucho 
Charlottesville, VA  22901  |			
(434) 924-7218              |         bryan@virginia.edu
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Hi folks,

	I think we've found the solution to the mystery I described
earlier.  The messages are caused by Microsoft Anti-Spyware, the
beta version of which is installed on the computer.  We tracked it
down when Anti-Spyware was installed on another computer, and we
started seeing similar messages from it.

	It's still not clear exactly what's going on.  On the
first machine, Anti-Spyware causes a string of failed attempts to
map shares where the share name has erroneously had a ".dll" appended 
to it.

	In the case of the second machine, Anti-Spyware causes a much
longer list of failed attempts, in which each share name is tried with
each of a long list of extensions (including .bat, .exe, .pif, .scr,....).

	The machines have shortcuts on their desktops leading to
the correct shares, and these seem to be what triggers this behavior
from Anti-Spyware.

	Since Anti-Spyware is still in beta, we're considering filing
a bug report with Microsoft.

						Bryan
-- 
==========================================================================Bryan
Wright                |"If you take cranberries and stew them like
Physics Department          | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes 
University of Virginia      | than rhubarb does."  --  Groucho 
Charlottesville, VA  22901  |			
(434) 924-7218              |         bryan@virginia.edu
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