[Samba] XP, shares and connections to port 80

Patrick Gunerud slu at firerun.net
Tue May 7 19:15:02 GMT 2002


So far I've had it turned off for about two months now and I have not 
had any problems so I can assume that only the webdav is effected by it. 
 That's the best I can tell you.

Patrick

Tony Shepherd wrote:

>Patrick Gunerud wrote:
>
>>I was getting the same thing with my machine, but I did eventually find
>>out what it was.  Windows XP has a Webdav redirector client that can
>>allow you to map a share to a http server.  It by default checks to see
>>if the share is http everytime.  To turn this feature off you need to
>>turn of the webclient service in the administrative tools.  Once turned
>>off it will no longer check the http server when connecting to a share.
>>
>
>Thanks Patrick.  This is really handy to know.  Do you know what else
>will break by turning off the webclient service??
>
>tony
>
>PS.  Yes Ben, I do see a slight hang.  Once you have authenticated
>correctly once, it does not seem to try to connect again to the Web
>server.
>
>
>>Patrick
>>
>>Ben Griffith wrote:
>>
>>>Tony,
>>>
>>>I see the same thing with my WinXP Pro machines. They also make
>>>several attempts to connect to port 80. I am still trying to figure
>>>out why. I think that this is part of the reason that there is a
>>>significant delay ( 20-30 sec ) when connecting to a share for the
>>>first time. XP attempts to connect 3x, each with at least a 3sec delay
>>>after receiving the instantaneous "dest unreachable" from my samba srver.
>>>
>>>Possibly explorer trying to show the folders with html content? ( Even
>>>though I have this option turned off in XP. )
>>>
>>>Do you experience a delay on the first time that you open a particular
>>>share, but not afterwards?
>>>
>>>    --Ben--
>>>
>>>--On 05/07/02 06:20:48 PM +1000 tony.shepherd at aus.sun.com wrote:
>>>
>>>| I have a Windows XP (home edition) system here and whenever I make a
>>>| connection to a file share, like \\samba-server\username, the XP system
>>>| tries to make a connection to port 80 on that system (often tries 3-5
>>>| times).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----------------------
>>>Ben Griffith
>>>bgriffit at email.unc.edu
>>>-----------------------
>>>
>

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