We are aware of this problem and are working to resolve it.  The problem boils down to this:

When the filesystem is first mounted, prior to accessing it, it is, according to the filesystem on the thin client, a directory of size zero.  Evidently, any file/dir with size zero is presented by samba as an empty file.

The best resolution would be to either:

1.  Get supermount to access the drive upon mount, thereby generating a nonzer directory size, or
2.  Get Samba to report zero-size directories as directories that can be accessed from the server

SIDE NOTE:  One peculiar thing is that when viewing the file thru Nautilus, a refresh of Nautilus can cause the file to be rendered as a directory (evidently accessing the directory somehow via the share).  Nautilus uses the Gnome Virtual File System to browse the filesystem rather than simply browsing the filesystem directly, so something it is doing is alleviating the issue....

Also note that code has been added to the hotplug scripts to make sure that this problem does not occur on USB drives.

We'll have it all sorted out in a jiffy...  ;)

-Gideon

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 08:13, Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli wrote:
On 12:40, venerdì 29 aprile 2005, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
> Anybody know how to fix this such that it isn't necessary to do a local
> listing of the disc content in order to be able to access it from the
> server?

I have a similar problem too .. as I posted time ago, but nobody seems to know 
about it ;-(



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