I don't know how this worked, but if I point "My Documents" to \\SERVER\homes everything seems to be OK. I still don't know why \\SERVER\robert bombed out. I'd be interested to know why.
"Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
