----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John H Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Samba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows XP Home Edition
> 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 ? I currently have a batch file in every user's startup folder on the xp home machine that does this: net use \\server1 <password> /user:<domain>\<user> (You can use * if you don't want to specify a pasword on command line - server1 is the name of my samba server) This seems to log them on to the server and allow them to use resources - printer and home folder. I haven't noticed it timing out but that may just be me not noticing. I think my account is invincible as its still set up to autologon or something as a hangover from my experiments with X-teq. But even a batch file to log you on every 10 minutes would do the job, no need to copy a file *I think*. matt > > A horrid cludge, but should stop the share going inactive, and work > around your problem. > > Mark > > -- > Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.520 / Virus Database: 318 - Release Date: 18/09/2003 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba