Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 23:30, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> So there seems to be some Windows setting that enables Windows to see
> Samba drives right away, and on one machine it's set and on the other
> it isn't.  A likely villain would be "Reconnect on logon", but that's
> checked on both machines.
>
> I can get the disconnected drives connected by clicking on them in My
> Computer.
>
> Any guesses?

Someone else reported a similar problem about two months back, and i 
believe the general consensus was that this is simply a by-design 
feature of Window. We could argue the philosophical merit or non-merit 
of trying to reconnect remote drives automatically, but that could go 
on for years with no consensus. That said, i believe Windows is "Doing 
the Right Thing" here by not trying to auto-connect until the remote 
resource is actually used.

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