On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 07:59, Susan McConnell wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:14:01 -0700 > Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We have a number of Windows 2000 Professional clients connected to > > > shared drives hosted on a Linux server running Samba. Within Windows > > > Explorer, each Samba drive is shown with a red cross on it, indicating > > > (I believe) that the network drive is not connected. However, it can be > > > accessed, read from and written to without problem. > > ---- > > This happens for a number of reasons. > > - server shares weren't available at time of login > > - samba server was restarted after login > > Neither of the above is true in this case - rebooting the Windows machines > made no difference, and the Samba server remained up throughout. > > > The reason that the red 'x' shows through the icon is that at some > > period, these shares weren't available to the system. Perhaps it's as > > simple as a browsing problem. You should look on the Windows systems > > 'event viewer' to see if there are any clues. > > Nothing significant that I could see. > > Thank you for your ideas - any others welcome! ---- just out of curiosity, how is security = configured on the samba server?
Are the Win2K systems 'joined' to the domain? Are you logging in with a domain account? Is there a netlogon script that mounts these drives? If you open "My Computer" and right click on these drives and "disconnect" - and the mounts are recreated (either by login script per above) or manually, does this solve the problem? Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba