On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:48:35PM -0400, Leandro Tracchia wrote: > I'm running Samba 3.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04. This is a recent upgrade and we've > starting experience a sporadic problem after this upgrade. > > When users are browsing through Windows Explorer they sometimes run across > folders that appear as unassociated files. This requires the user to click > the 'Refresh' button in Windows Explorer to properly see the folders. The > files and folders are hosted on our Ubuntu server and shared with Samba and > accessed on the Windows clients through various mapped network drives. > > The files on the Ubuntu server shared through Samba are actually MOUNTED onto > the Ubuntu server from a Windows XP "server" that is hosting the files > locally. These mounted files and folders are what is giving the users trouble > in seeing folders correctly. We have other files hosted locally on the Ubuntu > server and shared through Samba, but these are NOT giving us problems when > browsing them through Windows Explorer. The only files that are giving us > this problem are the mounted files. > > I've noticed that every time I come across a list of folders in Windows > Explorers that look like unassociated files, I get the following error > messages in /var/log/samba/log.smbd : > > --- > > error packet at smbd/nttrans.c(563) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) > NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND > [2010/07/06 15:56:24, 3] smbd/process.c:1459(process_smb) > > [2010/07/06 15:56:24, 3] smbd/error.c:60(error_packet_set) > error packet at smbd/nttrans.c(563) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX) > NT_STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY
Debug level 10 logs are needed at this point to see what the smbd is seeing when looking at the CIFS mounted files. > The mounting of the files is done through /etc/fstab with CIFS as the mount > type. > > The only solution I can think of would be to move the mounted files to the > Ubuntu server so they are hosted locally. Like I said, we are already doing > this with some directories, and we are not experiencing a problem browsing > through those. That would help ! Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
