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to: Peter Knapper
from: Dave Emory
date: 1999-10-24 13:32:00
subject: OS/2 & Samba under Linux

On Sunday October 24 1999, Peter Knapper wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 PK>   1. The Linux shares were not in a state to accept a login at the
 PK> time the OS/2 box tried to connect. This is one annoyance I have with
 PK> OS/2 networking, in that for an unattended server site it is not
 PK> possible to configure a RELIABLE automatic retry option to automate
 PK> connections via the WPS. To resolve this I always issue manual NET USE
 PK> commands via STARTUP.CMD to connect to a resource at system startup
 PK> and it loops (after a short delay) until those connections are
 PK> established successfully.

Could you share the salient parts of your command file to do this looping?  I
have a heterogeneous network here with W98, Linux, and OS/2 boxes.  If I have
a power outage, I end up having to monitor the whole restart to make sure the
shares all work.  TTYL -=- Dave

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