[Samba] WinXP looking for *.dll share names?

[Bryan K. Wright]

Hi folks,

	I think we've found the solution to the mystery I described
earlier.  The messages are caused by Microsoft Anti-Spyware, the
beta version of which is installed on the computer.  We tracked it
down when Anti-Spyware was installed on another computer, and we
started seeing similar messages from it.

	It's still not clear exactly what's going on.  On the
first machine, Anti-Spyware causes a string of failed attempts to
map shares where the share name has erroneously had a ".dll" appended 
to it.

	In the case of the second machine, Anti-Spyware causes a much
longer list of failed attempts, in which each share name is tried with
each of a long list of extensions (including .bat, .exe, .pif, .scr,....).

	The machines have shortcuts on their desktops leading to
the correct shares, and these seem to be what triggers this behavior
from Anti-Spyware.

	Since Anti-Spyware is still in beta, we're considering filing
a bug report with Microsoft.

						Bryan
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