Author: Simon Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Samba & XP Pro - Disappearing My Network Places
Damian Brasher wrote: > Simon Capstick wrote:
>> We've made a recent upgrade from Debian sarge (old stable) to Debian
>> Etch (stable). The server is running Samba, using a pretty much
>> identical config as before. However we are now experiencing random
>> disappearances of 'My Network Places' shortcuts to the server. Each
>> Windows XP Pro PC has 8 or so shortcuts to shares on the Samba server.
>> Each day one or two different users lose one or two of their shortcuts
>> to the server's shares.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this before, or know what the cause is? Otherwise I
>> will just have to create a folder of regular Windows shortcuts for each
>> user, and accept one more pane of Windows is broken.
>>
>
> Sounds more like it could be a Windows XP only issue, however you may need
> to check the master browser settings for your workgroup, if you use domain
> logins you could use a .bat script that runs as a user logs in or on boot
> if you don't, that cleans up old network shares then re-maps them.
>
> e.g.
>
> net use j: /delete
> net use j: \\server\share
>
> Always worth checking if windows updates have recently been applied to all
> your workstations.
>
> Are there any hostname resolution problems? Perhaps lmhosts needs checking.
>
> Just some pointers, if you are still stuck then post your smb.conf file here.
>
> dlb
>
Thanks Damian. We're not using NT domains. just a workgroup. DNS and
WINS name resolution is working fine. Samba computer browsing is
working fine too. I'm guessing a Windows update triggered it. I'll
take a look once I get access to one of the PCs.
