SAMBA 2.0.3 Win95-Win98 Icons for Executables *.EXE

Matthew Kirkwood weejock at ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
Tue Mar 9 12:58:53 GMT 1999


On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 sramirez at dimetronic.es wrote:

> Anybody knows why I cannot see executables Icons into a Network
> Connection with a SAMBA Server into Windows ? 

Application .EXE files contain the icons.  Windows decides that
on networked drives it is too slow to open and read bits of all
the programs and just uses the default "Program" icons.

> For example, I map F: \apli\office and I don't know icons for
> executables , but I see icons for *.DOC, etc, etc,

The icons for .DOC, &c. are stored on the local machine so it's
OK to show them.

Matthew.




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