[Samba] XP, shares and connections to port 80

[Tony Shepherd]

Patrick Gunerud wrote:
> 
> I was getting the same thing with my machine, but I did eventually find
> out what it was.  Windows XP has a Webdav redirector client that can
> allow you to map a share to a http server.  It by default checks to see
> if the share is http everytime.  To turn this feature off you need to
> turn of the webclient service in the administrative tools.  Once turned
> off it will no longer check the http server when connecting to a share.

Thanks Patrick.  This is really handy to know.  Do you know what else
will break by turning off the webclient service??

tony

PS.  Yes Ben, I do see a slight hang.  Once you have authenticated
correctly once, it does not seem to try to connect again to the Web
server.


> 
> Patrick
> 
> Ben Griffith wrote:
> 
> > Tony,
> >
> > I see the same thing with my WinXP Pro machines. They also make
> > several attempts to connect to port 80. I am still trying to figure
> > out why. I think that this is part of the reason that there is a
> > significant delay ( 20-30 sec ) when connecting to a share for the
> > first time. XP attempts to connect 3x, each with at least a 3sec delay
> > after receiving the instantaneous "dest unreachable" from my samba srver.
> >
> > Possibly explorer trying to show the folders with html content? ( Even
> > though I have this option turned off in XP. )
> >
> > Do you experience a delay on the first time that you open a particular
> > share, but not afterwards?
> >
> >     --Ben--
> >
> > --On 05/07/02 06:20:48 PM +1000 tony.shepherd at aus.sun.com wrote:
> >
> > | I have a Windows XP (home edition) system here and whenever I make a
> > | connection to a file share, like \\samba-server\username, the XP system
> > | tries to make a connection to port 80 on that system (often tries 3-5
> > | times).
> >
> >
> >
> > -----------------------
> > Ben Griffith
> > bgriffit at email.unc.edu
> > -----------------------
> >