Samba and NT 4.0

[Ryan Wyler]

We are having an issue where I have a samba share pointing to an
Automount point.  When people go into that share, it takes FOREVER to
pull up the directory.  I went into the logs and I would 'tail -f' the
log file and see what PID was pulling the directory, then I would TRUSS
the PID.  It would say things like "directory_x/desktop.ini not found".

So the NT 4.0 machine was trying to go into EVERY directory and look for
a file called "desktop.ini".  Some of the directories actually are on
servers that the user does not have permissions to and also the samba
server does not have access to.  It would take about 20 seconds PER
directory that it could not get into to timeout on the desktop.ini file.

Anyone know a way around this?? What is NT looking for these dang
desktop.ini files?  Thanks.



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