Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 6:46 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 01/10/06 15:30, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> >I have a couple of machines running Windows (with Linux on dual boot, of
> >course).  A third machine is running Linux with Samba and exporting
> > several directories via Samba.
> >
> >On one of the machines, when I start up Windows, My Computer shows the
> >exported drives as "Network Drive".  But on the other one, exported drives
> >show up as "Disconnected Network Drive".  Each Windows machine, however,
> > can see the other's exported folders without difficulty.

The disconnected drives can easily be connected by clicking on them in My 
Computer, but it's necessary to do that before using them in any application.

> It must still be there.. it was there in WFW and in 9x, and Mickey never
> throws anything away...
>
> in the properties for a network drive, look for a click-box to turn on
> auto-reconnect at startup.

"Reconnect at logon", actually.

> There may also be a similar setting in the 
> properties for a remote machine (dunno for sure, shrug). I don't recall
> ever seeing any single choice anywhere to turn it on globally (ie. all
> shares on all remotes).

I have that box checked in every instance.  What's puzzling about the behavior 
is why it should be different among the Win boxes and why it should only 
affect Samba shares.  Some obscure Win setting, I suppose, that affects how 
it sees Samba shares.

Paul