Tech support request (an odd one)

[Greg Louis]

On 20011025 (Thu) at 1019:57 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Greg Louis wrote:
> 
> > When one clicks "save as" and attempts to open (browse to) the drive to
> > which the home share is mapped, the computer responds that that drive
> > letter is invalid or that one has no access to that folder.  Any other
> > share than Homes can be accessed normally.  This problem is not
> > encountered if the OS is Windows 98 or if the Office version is 97, nor
> > is it encountered with any non-Microsoft software we have tried.  It
> > makes no difference whether the home share has or has not the
> > Browseable option.
> ....
> > > [homes]
> > >         path = /fs/u/%S
> 
> I would guess that it is this path statement.  Try using
> "path = /fs/u/%U".  This will give a little bit different
> behavior than what you have, but I would guess it has to
> do with some of the variable substituion bugs in 2.2.2.
> 
No luck, I'm sorry to say.  Behaviour with Win2K clients is the same
with %U as it was with %S.

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