right clicking exe file in shared folder system hangs

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RANG

Hi Friends,

When i rightclick an .exe file in shared folder my system hangs down.
if i try opening some other folder or non .exe file in the same shared
folder it is working good.

what was the issue, pls. help me regard this

thanks in advance

rang
 
RANG said:
Hi Friends,

When i rightclick an .exe file in shared folder my system hangs down.
if i try opening some other folder or non .exe file in the same shared
folder it is working good.

what was the issue, pls. help me regard this

thanks in advance

rang
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sorry to update onething,

that shared folder machine is unix and samba server is running on
that..

Thanks
rang
 
RANG said:
sorry to update onething,

that shared folder machine is unix and samba server is running on
that..
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So you are in Windows right-clicking a Windows file hosted on a *nix
machine? First check the right-click attributes in your Windows with
the free ShellExView.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace
objects - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

If that doesn't help, check your permissions on the shared folder in
*nix. It almost sounds like the .exe is trying to run and of course it
can't do that.

I have a mixed OS network and I routinely copy files from Windows to
Linux and vice versa. Honestly, I can't remember if I ever tried to
right-click a file on a Linux box from Windows to look at attributes
although of course I right-click/drag/copy/move files on a Linux box to
Windows all the time. I'll have to give it a try later when one of the
Windows machines is on. A workaround would be of course not to
right-click an .exe file this way but just to first copy it to Windows.

Malke
 
I just right-clicked on an executable hosted on my Linux box from
Windows (XP Pro). I had no problem seeing its Properties, so something
is wrong with your setup. Follow through with the t-shooting
suggestions I gave you - examining your context menu entries on Windows
and checking permissions on *nix.

Malke
 
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