On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 23:04, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Eric Treu wrote: > > I understand that Microsoft, in their wisdom, has a share timeout after > > 15 minutes of inactivity. > > Yes. Correct. > > > Can anybody help me. I have come to the conclusion that the one XP > > Professional box that I have does not have this problem. I don't want > > to upgrade, buy, or install XP Professional on all the boxes. > > Sorry. MS have you snookered.
Try finding a program that can use the share every 10 minutes to prevent it going idle... Eg, Write a cmd/bat file that copies a file over, sleeps for 10 minutes, and repeats ? A horrid cludge, but should stop the share going inactive, and work around your problem. Mark -- Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba