[Samba] angry red X's & disconnected drives

[Sam Barasch]

Yes, the drives are the users home directory and one other directory.

I'll try your suggestion tomorrow and post the results.


> 
> More info would help. Are these drives the users home folders in the [homes] 
> section of the smb.conf file?
> 
> I ran into a problem similar to this quite often in a windows domain. What 
> caused the problem is the user or someone had manually mapped the drives. In 
> other words someone had either browsed the network and mapped drive or 
> entered path to drive.  Anytime a drive that is connected in users profile is 
> also manually mapped you will get device already in use error. 
> To test this just disconnect the drives and have user login again. If this is 
> cause of problem error will go away.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> On Monday 19 August 2002 15:37, Sam Barasch wrote:
> > Esteemed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Samba list,
> >
> > I have a curious problem on one of my windows 2000 machines.
> >
> > As soon as the user connects to a samba share, they are disconnected and
> > the drive appears marked with a red X
> >
> > The samba logs indicate that 10-20 seconds after any user of this machine
> > connects to a network drive, they are disconnected.
> >
> >
> > Oddly enough, you can browse the contents of the drives with no
> > problems.  You can also save documents to the network drives, but you get
> > the following error message;
> >
> > "an error occurred while reconnecting W: to \\server\myshare.  Microsoft
> > Windows Network:  The local device name is already in use.  this connection
> > has not been restored     <OK>"
> >
> > Users are still able to save, however, but then they ask me what the
> > message means, and I weep and tear out my hair.
> >
> > Seriously though, no big deal, but kind of annoying.  Happens to two out of
> > 100 users.
> >
> > I'll look through the M$ knowledge base and if I find anything I'll post it
> > here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ---
> > Sam Barasch
> > Computer Systems Support
> > Department of Biostatistics
> > University of Wisconsin Madison
> 
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