Dear Gurus, We're having bizarre problems/behaviour. Admittedly we have an unusual set-up:
- users on linux desktops (RedHat/KDE) mounting files over SMB using samba-2.2.5-10 -client and -common rpms. - files are on a SAN, clustered behind 2 netware servers (6.5), wihch run the cifs.nlm (netware guy has gone home - can't tell you the version just now) Files are spontaneously changing modification timestamps - anywhere between about 1930 and 2040 (AD, not hours). Or more likely *presenting* those timestamps most of the time, though now and then the correct timestamp will swim into view briefly. example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] glen]$ ls -l home/test333* -rwxr-xr-x 1 glen users 0 Aug 12 16:44 home/test3332 -rwxr-xr-x 1 glen users 11 Aug 12 16:43 home/test3333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] glen]$ ls -l home/test3333 -rwxr-xr-x 1 glen users 11 Sep 2 1992 home/test3333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] glen]$ ls -l home/test3332 -rwxr-xr-x 1 glen users 0 Oct 26 1992 home/test3332 [home is the mount-point, or rather a symlink down thru the mount a little way] Most newly created files seem to have the problem straight away. (But the bulk of the files were rsync'd across from a Tru64 filesystem a month ago) We have tried versions 2.2.8a and 3.0.0beta of smbclient / smbmount; 2.2.8a was the same; 3.0.0 started with promising results, but it eventually did the same timestamp trick (maybe less frequent??) but it also dies somehow after about 30 mins and has to be remounted. We believe we have narrowed this behaviour down to only linux samba clients talking to the netware cifs nlm. To add to the pot: we have also had a handful of files apparently change filename spontaneously - so that they start with '..' In most cases, they started as .xyz and became ..xyz The only processes which touched those files should have been reads - no writes. This may be a red herring - may not be samba-related. The timestamp issue is wide-spread, the filename problem is rare. So, has anyone seen anything like this? Can you explain what causes it? And is there a solution? TIA Glen -- Glen Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer System Administrator phone: +61 2 9385 7018 Maths, UNSW fax: +61 2 9385 7192 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
