Hi. We're having a bit of a strange problem with Samba, and we're
hoping someone might be able to offer some good advice as it's
exhausted our ideas. Thanks.
Our office has a SUSE Linux box that we use as a fileserver, using Samba
to expose it to our Windows machines, in the form of three shares.
Sometimes (it's inconsistent but seems to happen several times a week),
one of our computers will stop 'seeing' the contents of the
subdirectories of the root of one of the shares. When we open the
share in Explorer, the contents of the root appears as expected, but
when we navigate into any subdirectory it appears as empty. Meanwhile,
we can open the share on another machine, and all the subdirectory
contents appear as expected.
We've observed this problem on one (and only one) of the shares, which
is itself confusing as they're all configured exactly the same. We've
tried rebooting the Windows machine but the same problem is observed
when it comes back. We've also tried rebooting the Samba service, but
again the same problem is observed! If we leave it for long enough,
however, eventually it starts working again. Our best guess is that
the Windows machine somehow caches some bad data, somehow.
Thus far this problem has only been observed from two of our Windows
machines; one runs 32-bit Windows XP Pro and the other 64-bit Windows
Server 2003.
The Samba log shows everything appearing normal, e.g.:
[2007/06/18 14:07:12, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(309)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [fred] -> [fred] ->
fred] succeeded
[2007/06/18 14:07:12, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(323)
Allowed connection from (192.168.1.149)
[2007/06/18 14:07:12, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(950)
kronos (192.168.1.149) connect to service CVS initially as user fred
(uid=1000, gid=100) (pid 18524)
[2007/06/18 14:07:12, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_tcon_and_X(711)
Serving CVS as a Dfs root
[2007/06/18 14:10:37, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(352)
port opened file cvs.html read=Yes write=No (numopen=3)
[2007/06/18 14:10:47, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(344)
port closed file cvs.html (numopen=2)
Our smb.conf file is quite simple:
workgroup = JAMES_RE
server string = Office File Server
hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = no
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
log level = 2
max log size = 128
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
ssl CA certFile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
remote announce = 192.168.1.255
local master = yes
os level = 128
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
domain logons = yes
name resolve order = host bcast
dns proxy = no
veto oplock files = /*.pst/ibdata*/ib_logfile*/
[NETLOGON]
path = /etc/samba
read only = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
case sensitive = yes
force create mode = 0664
create mode = 0664
force directory mode = 0775
directory mode = 0775
[Common]
comment = Common Directory
path = /home/Common
browseable = yes
read only = no
force create mode = 0664
create mode = 0664
force directory mode = 0775
directory mode = 0775
[CVS]
comment = CVS Repository
path = /home/CVS
browseable = yes
read only = no
force create mode = 0660
create mode = 0660
force directory mode = 0770
directory mode = 0770
Any advice anyone may have on this matter would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
James.
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