On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: > Hi everyone, > > we are using Samba V2.2.3a on a Debian Linux "woody" system. The samba > server is configured to be a PDC for our domain, which has mainly > Windows 2000 clients. > > When the clients are idle in the network and don't use the server for > a while, the shares connected on the client get inactive (marked with a cute little > red cross in windows ;)) ), and sometimes it takes Windows up to 30 seconds > to reconnect to the shares. That's kinda nasty if eg. Word tries to save > a file while Windows tries to reconnect to the server, we have ended up with > screwed up files more than once. > > We have tried most of the options regarding TCP and and timeouts, but we > have found no solution to it yet. > > If somebody has some useful hints for us, we would be very glad.
This is a Win2k client setting IIRC. Search support.microsoft.com for "2000 disconntect network share" to locate the registry key (i'm guessing that will work). cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba