Samba and NT 4.0

Anders C. Thorsen anders at aae.wisc.edu
Thu Feb 24 16:43:53 GMT 2000


The infamous Microsoft Internet Exploder Active Desktop Add-on stuff
try WITHOUT installing this when you Install IE 4.x / 5.x
[don't believe it can be proplerly disintegrated from your computer...
I'ts probably implemented in your kernel as the rest of IE :) ]

--Anders

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> 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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