[Samba] Windows XP Home Edition

[Kevin Smith]

Just a thought, does your Mortgage software have an Auto save feature? If so
may you can set it for every 5 or 10 minutes to keep the share active. I
would think someone has developed a work around for this by now. Have you
Checked Google for one?

Kev




Message: 31
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:01:27 -0700
From: Eric Treu <eric at nurnberg.com>
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I am using Samba 2.2.3a-12.3 on a Debian server.

All the clients but one are XP home edition.

I have a share on the server which all workstations are able to see,
view, write, edit, etc.

After 15 minutes of inactivity the share obtains a red X over the share
icon.  I am able to reactivate the share by clicking on the red x with
no problems.

I understand that Microsoft, in their wisdom, has a share timeout after
15 minutes of inactivity.

This might not seem like a problem, but the mortgage software will
default to the local hard drive if it cannot find the share; therefore,
writing data to the hard drive and not to the shared data drive.

Can anybody help me.  I have come to the conclusion that the one XP
Professional box that I have does not have this problem.  I don't want
to upgrade, buy, or install XP Professional on all the boxes.

HELP.

Eric