Hi all, I am trying to figure out why Win7 will not redirect the default "documents" folder onto a mapped Samba drives. We are testing to see if Win7 is going to be a valid workstation replacement to XP/OpenSuse workstations with all our Linux file/web/email servers. After mapping the drives, I right click the Documents folder and try to change the path and it won't work. Hopefully this can be resolved by the time Win7 comes out, or we will be forced to replace the final XP workstations with Opensuse. Hopefully this can be fixed without being to convoluted. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Heeter

Hi all, Still need some assistance, Thanks Heeter

Hi there,tried that yesterday without any problem.But: I have a Windows 2008 domain besides my Linux server and the Linux box is a member in this domain. Perhaps thismakes the difference.Which version of Samba do you use?What does "won't work" mean exactly - do you get an error message?Bye.Michael.

Hello, I right click on the documents folder, select properties, select "include Folder" and then select the mapped linux file server drive. Then it gives me an error that it cannot select this drive because it cannot be indexed. The network is using Samba2. I just tried a vista machine and it redirected the documents folder, no problem. Heeter

It could just be that Windows 7 is not currently able to index files not compatible with the Operating system. Regardless of whether it works with Windows Vista or other OSes. The indexing service could also need to be restarted.

I have an Ubuntu server that I use as a file and print server. I am able to see it fine with all flavors of Windows fine. The OP wanted to be able to use the indexing service on a SAMBA share. Given that Ubuntu, like most distributions, use ext3 as the default file system, its not compatible to low level services that Microsoft use with indexing. Now my LAN is a typical 1G Ethernet so its not rate determining when moving files. I noticed that even with mapped drives to the shares, indexing is able to realize it cannot index everything on the LAN. If you need an indexed share, Linux cannot help you that way. You will find however that ext3 is fast enough to find files normally. Like NTFS, ext3 is a journalling file system.Vote if helpful, I am running for Office (joke), also mark questions answered. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. My server's disk finally croaked, I am out of work, I need to get a new server as the old IBM is past its prime.

Thanks for the information, vegan fanatic. I do have the Samba file server running fine with Win7, but cannot index. I do have regular mapped drives instead. Heeter

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This issue is not solved. There are various tools out there to get a mapped samba-folder inside the windows 7 as a library. But that does not make it indexed! There is even a hotfix to make win 7 index these folders although I have not talked to anyone that have tried/done this successfully. Anyway it is only for 32 bit win7, and it does not seem to be a fix for the 64-bit !? And this indexing worked just nicely on XP. It's just hard belive how things develop. Have anyone tried to make this work using the old "indexing service". ?