[Samba] Red cross on network drives

[Susan McConnell]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:14:01 -0700
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> 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.
> ----
> This happens for a number of reasons.
> - server shares weren't available at time of login
> - samba server was restarted after login

Neither of the above is true in this case - rebooting the Windows machines
made no difference, and the Samba server remained up throughout.

> 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.

Nothing significant that I could see.

Thank you for your ideas - any others welcome!

Sue