SuSE 9.0 Pro - Kernel 2.4.21 - Samba 2.2.8a and 3.0.1-14 Here's my problem:
On a box runninng XP, I have a shared folder which contains 130+ subdirectories. This share is mounted on my linux box from '/etc/smbfstab', but some directories do not show up in directory listings. It's never more than one, and which one varies, but generally seems to be in or near the last half of the listing. As a test, I can do 'ls -l | wc -l' and the number will frequently be 1 less than it should be. The same test on a directory with over 700 files in it I gave as many as 9 missing entries. When I first noticed the problem I was running Redhat 9. Now I'm running SuSE 9 and the problem persists. I've also tried Samba 3.0.1, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I'm guessing this is an issue with smbfs mounts, because I can do 'smbclient //some-server/blah -U user%pass -c dir' and I don't get any missing directories or files. Here appear to be similar reports, but no solutions: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=102458988807544&w=2 http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9603.1/0579.html http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20030811.020338.5e7083b5.html http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2002-November/025587.html Some of the above reports are pretty old which makes me wonder why more people haven't run into the problem or if there's some kind of weird system combinations which cause it. What I know: Directories with fewer items don't have this problem. The larger the directory, the more missing entries. Update: I actually wrote this a few days ago and never sent it because through my twiddling the problem mysteriously vanished (or so I thought). Now I find that it's still happening, but much more rarely than before. I stopped some Norton Antivirus related services on the Windows machine and then (after that didn't help) I restarted them and I also did a Norton update. Maybe it's related to NAV activity on the XP box, but I can't say for certain. Now that it happens so infrequently it's difficult to even test. So I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen this kind of thing and looking for advice. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
