[cifs-discuss] home directories disappear

[HUGE | Rob Terhaar]

On 7/7/08 11:16 AM, "Matt Harrison" <iwasinnamuknow at genestate.com> wrote:

> I've been using autohome directories now for a week or so but I'm
> noticing that if a machine is left logged in, say overnight, then the
> user's home directory share drops and gives a "Network path not found"
> error on the winxp clients.

Don't have a fix or workaround for you, but you may want to check out the
cifs docs about this:

Some Windows clients log a user out after 15 minutes of inactivity, which
results in the autohome share disappearing from the list of defined shares.
This behavior is expected for CIFS autohome shares. Even after a CIFS
autohome share is removed, the share reappears when the user attempts to
access the system (for example, in an Explorer window).