I have a server running slackware 9.1 and samba samba-2.2.8a and have WinXP Home (SP1) on a client machine. I have all of my users "My documents" pointing at a subdirectory of their home directories (ie. /home/USER/.documents). All of the users are able to use this with no problems EXCEPT me. When I log in to my user profile in Windows, the system tray takes about 5 minutes to load up. If I try to log out it hangs for about 5 minutes during this time. I am able to prevent this behaviour by pointing "My Documents" to a folder on the local (C:) hard drive and not using my samba share. Also - when I right-click on "My Documents" (in XP), go to "Properties" and change "Target" to \\SERVER\robert, it hangs for ages when I press Apply or OK. I recently reinstalled my entire XP hard drive and this problem still ocurs. Presumably its not an XP setup problem. Upgrading samba to 3.0.0 makes no difference.
My user name is robert, the client computer is called CLIENT and the server is called SERVER (the names are fictitious). Sorry about putting a Windows question on a Unix newsgroup, but the aim of samba is to allow these systems to speak to each other! My /var/log/samba/CLIENT.log looks like this (as you can see there are some strange entries that are specific to my user name (they don't apply to other users): [2003/12/28 11:03:31, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252) CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service robert.dll [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388) Unable to get printer status for rober - client-error-not-found [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252) CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service rober [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_printername_ok(388) Unable to get printer status for robert.dll - client-error-not-found [2003/12/28 11:10:57, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(252) CLIENT (192.168.2.20) couldn't find service robert.dll Here are the relevant parts of my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = HOME netbios name = SERVER server string = Samba Server encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log log level = 0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 lock dir = /var/lock/samba printing = cups printcap name = cups invalid users = root browseable = No [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%S/.documents read only = No create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba