On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote: > > And, not to hijack anyone's thread, but just as a head's up > It may be due to some less-than-mature NIC drivers, but I'm seeing an > annoying habit of Win7 Pro 32 and 64 to drop network shares....i.e., I > put DBFs on a network share S: drive that is mapped on each workstation > to \\SERVERNAME\CDRIVE. I can't get it to mess up consistently, but it > smells like it has to do with inactivity. In other words, if there's > been no access to the share in X minute, the share is dropped by either > my Linux Samba box, or Win 7. Things will be going along fine and > suddenly an error will pop up > "c:\data\file.dbf" unavailable...abort, retry, ignore" > Nothing seems to help so far other than opening a Windows Explorer > window and accessing the share (which usually shows a red dot on the > drive icon in the folder listing.) After clicking the share, the red > mark turns green and all is well as long as the VFP application re-tries > the access. > > The frustrating part is that it's totally inconsistent.
Mike: Anything helpful in either the Linux server's samba logs or the logs on the workstation? One of them ought to be noticing this problem and logging it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
