[Samba] Desktop.ini and samba - Please comment

Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 AJAVID1 at motorola.com
Wed Jul 31 15:40:10 GMT 2002


thanks for your replies, really appreciate it

i was looking at way to pinpoint the problem that w2k cleint is having
regarding all files and folder not visible when mapped to unix home drive

can you guys give some thoughts about it as well :-))))



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:30 PM
To: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
Cc: 'Bradley W. Langhorst'; samba at lists.samba.org;
samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Desktop.ini and samba - Please comment


Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote:
> 
> thanks
> but why do you think samba is looking for it

Becouse the windows client asks for it.  

MS Windows Explorer looks for 'desktop.ini' in *every* directory
displayed, unless explicitly configured otherwise.

Andrew Bartlett

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