[Samba] "home folder" v.s. regular drive mappings

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Sep 14 19:13:08 GMT 2003


On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:13:27PM -0500, Aaron_Colichia at Dell.com wrote:
> Hey, has anyone on the list experienced the following behavior ?
> 
> When \\server\userhome <\\server\userhome>  is specified as the "home
> folder" in the AD user profile, XP takes a long time to open up "my
> computer"
> 
> But when \\server\userhome <\\server\userhome>  is mapped via a netlogon
> script, XP opens "my computer" quickly
> 
> I've searched ms technet for clues to what may be occurring and didn't see
> anything of interest.

This is to do with the web services sharing thing, I think
XP is trying to connect via that protocol. Turn off web
services on the client.

Jeremy.



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