Tag: windows 7

Finding junction files in Windows 7 and exclude them with DeltaCopy

Windows 7 has a sort of hard link, a junction file, which it uses to link the old location "Documents and Settings" to /Users/. Because of all this junctioning, you can't just copy files with a Cygwin program like Deltacopy, because it will hang in infinite loop and copy a whole lot of things twice. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on January 10, 2011, at 15:01 | No comments

Preventing the creation of $RECYCLE.BIN on Samba shares by Windows 7

Windows 7 kept creating a $RECYCLE.BIN dir on the network share. This in itself is merely annoying, but there were also errors resulting from it. Whenever a file would be deleted, this message would appear (translated from dutch): "The recycle bin is damaged, do you want to delete the contents?" Everything froze until that question was answered. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on March 25, 2010, at 14:03 | No comments

Adding a quick launch in Windows 7

Windows 7 doesn''t have a quicklaunch by default. Luckily, there is a fix. To enable it, add toolbar, other toolbar and include this as location: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on March 18, 2010, at 17:03 | No comments

Fixing extremely slow domain logon windows 7

I just installed two Windows 7 machines and both of them take a very long time to logon to the (samba) domain controller. I've found several reports on the internet about people with the same issue. This was one of the pages I found. I tried it and it works. It says: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on March 17, 2010, at 22:03 | No comments

Installing Samba from lenny-backports

With our new Windows 7 machines, we need at least samba 3.3.7. However, our server with Debian stable doesn't have that in its repository. So, I was forced to install samba with lenny-backports. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on March 17, 2010, at 12:03 | No comments