A few ideas:
1.) Does a clean installation of build 130 make any difference?
(Install, then copy some mp3 files to the cleanly installed server.
Consider testing using a virtual machine if you don't want to change
anything on your mp3 file server. You could also swap in a spare hard
drive to your server to do the clean install.)
2.) Does a clean, and fully patched installation of Windows 7 make any
difference?
3.) Can you use Windows Explorer to copy some of the mp3 files to the
Windows 7 PC's local hard drive? Do bytewise comparisons or the MD5
hashes match? The Windows Explorer HashTab extension is very convenient
for checking hashes. Ideally the hashes will be calculated locally on
each computer (locally from the server's console, and locally on Windows 7).
4.) Does Vista behave the same way?
5.) What happens if you upgrade WMP on the XP machine to the latest
version of WMP for XP? (Consider making an image backup of your XP
system before upgrading WMP.)
6.) What happens if you boot your OpenSolaris server into 111b? It
should be a Grub boot menu option (boot environment) that was created
when you upgraded to 130. Do the problems go away again when booted
into the 111b boot environment? (This may not be possible if you
upgraded your ZFS version.)
7.) Can you reproduce the problem using Samba instead of CIFS on
OpenSolaris, or using Samba on Linux/Ubuntu/Debian/etc?
-hk
Peter Lutong wrote:
I have my entire MP3 collection on my OpenSolaris server, which was running
2009.06 (111b) and having all sorts of problems with CIFS hanging as documented
in other threads. I upgraded to the dev build 130 last week and while it has
solved the problem with CIFS hanging, I have a new problem...
A couple of my PCs are using Windows 7 - ever since the upgrade to build 130
songs and entire albums started disappearing from the Windows Media Player /
Center library. I forced a rescan of the entire folder and a great many songs
ended up filed under 'unknown'. Sure enough, when I right click on those tracks
in media player and select open file location, Windows Explorer is 'missing'
the artist/album tags for some or all files in that folder.
I have another PC running Windows XP with Windows Media Player 10 which is
having no problems at all.
Also, if I 'touch' the file from the Windows XP machine by opening up the
Advanced Tag Editor in WMP10 for the 'corrupt' tracks - but make *no changes*
(modified date stays the same) - the track info will magically now appear when
I refresh the folder view on the Windows 7 machine.
Just to restate, Windows 7 had no problems before OpenSolaris was upgraded.
Since this started I tried taking away r/w access to the user account the Win7
machine is using, since I suspected Win7 was 'corrupting' the files but I am
now pretty certain that this is not the case.
Other MP3 software running on the Windows 7 machine (Winamp, Mp3Tag) don't seem
to have any problem reading the ID3 tags of any tracks on the CIFS share.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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