Hi Jonathan Bernard, you wrote:
> It is true that XP Home can not authenticate to a domain, but an > upgrade to XP Pro will not automatically solve the disconnected drive > problem. > > My main work station is XP Pro and authenticates to a Win2K AD PDC, > and I will still loose touch with the my mapped drive (which is > mapped to the shared AD resource). Clicking on the share will > re-connect it again, but that doesn't fix your problem > > Our company has looked for a fix for this for a while, and have yet > to find anything that works. for a connection to an samba server use a shorter keepalive time in smb.conf. Default is keepalive = 300 Depending on the application you have to use for instance keepalive = 30 This will increase the load of the samba server with many connections! See also the parameter deadime For a connection to a windows server you have to edit the registry of the server: Registry Settings System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\ Parameters] Value Name: Autodisconnect Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: 0 to 4,294,967,295 (0xffffffff) in minutes der tom -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba