RANG said:
sorry to update onething,
that shared folder machine is unix and samba server is running on
that..
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