On Friday 01 September 2006 8:20 pm, Jesse L. Purdom wrote:
On Friday 01 September 2006 20:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I have a couple of directories set up to be visible to Windows via Samba. On the Windows machine, they initially show up in the Network Drives as "Disconnected Network Drive" (under "My Computer"). (The Linux machine is booted first.) Most programs then have difficulty accessing the contents of these drives. However, if I open one of these drives under "My Computer", it is no longer disconnected and the Windows programs can access its contents just fine.
I've seen this type of behavior from Windows XP in the past on a "all Windows" network. I do not think Samba is at fault in this. I am not exactly sure what the cause of the problem is, but I suspect it lies within the application in question.
I see the problem with more than one application (Quicken being one but not the only one). But if you've seen the same behavior on an all-Windows network, then indeed the problem must be on the Windows side. It's a nuisance but at least there's a workaround. Paul