On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:59:56PM +0100, James Farmer wrote: > 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
I don't suppose you could try 3.0.25 could you ? I re-wrote most of the DFS code for this release - and this type of thing definately sounds like a DFS bug. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
