[Samba] Red cross on network drives

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 01:50, Susan McConnell wrote:
> We have a number of Windows 2000 Professional clients connected to shared
> drives hosted on a Linux server running Samba. Within Windows Explorer,
> each Samba drive is shown with a red cross on it, indicating (I believe)
> that the network drive is not connected. However, it can be accessed, read
> from and written to without problem.
> 
> Why is the drive shown as disconnected, and what can be done to show its
> connected status correctly?
> 
> I've found references to this problem online, but I've not been able to
> find a solution.
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This happens for a number of reasons.
- server shares weren't available at time of login
- samba server was restarted after login

The reason that the red 'x' shows through the icon is that at some
period, these shares weren't available to the system. Perhaps it's as
simple as a browsing problem. You should look on the Windows systems
'event viewer' to see if there are any clues.

Craig