[cifs-discuss] home directories disappear

[Matt Harrison]

HUGE|Rob Terhaar wrote:
> 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).
>  
> 

I remember reading that windows sometimes logs you out of cifs after 
inactivity, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.

I can still access a home share after, for example, being away for an 
hour on lunch. On the other hand, unless the user logs out of xp and 
logs back in, the share never reappears even when browsing to it manually.

This isn't a show stopper but it's one of these things that really 
confuse the users, and I like to have a decent answer for them :P

Thanks

Matt