RE: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:08:52AM -0500, Mitch Crane wrote: I see. I can also reproduce the symptoms, btw, with: smbclient //some-server/some-share -U user%pass -c 'dir foo/*' | wc -l Though I see the missing entries less frequently (which is why I originally thought smbclient was ok). Does this happen using smbclient to smbd or does this only happen against a Windows server ? Jeremy. I don't know. I suspect it's just against a Windows server, and possibly just 2000 and XP (maybe 2003). I've only seen it when accessing my Windows XP machine, and all the reports I googled involved Windows based shares. I run the one Linux web server which only uses the client to serve files which reside on my XP box. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files
-Original Message- From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:33 PM To: Mitch Crane Cc: 'Jeremy Allison'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files Ok - the problem is this looks like a smbfs problem, not a Samba server problem. The Samba Team doesn't maintain smbfs - one of our members (Steve French from IBM) has written and maintains cifsvfs, the replacement for smbfs. I don't think we can promise to fix any smbfs problem as we aren't the maintainers. I see. I can also reproduce the symptoms, btw, with: smbclient //some-server/some-share -U user%pass -c 'dir foo/*' | wc -l Though I see the missing entries less frequently (which is why I originally thought smbclient was ok). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:48:19PM -0500, Mitch Crane wrote: If you are mounting a share from your XP machine then yes, it's a known problem. Though I don't recall anyone from the samba team actually acknowledging it, I have the problem and I have seen several other reports of this problem. Not a known problem to us :-). This is the first I've seen of it. Do you have a reproducible test case for this ? That's why I added that no one from the samba team had acknowledged it--I wasn't sure you guys were aware of it, just that some people were. I only joined the samba list about 2 weeks ago (mainly in search of a solution for this problem) yet I've seen four reports of this problem (including this one and mine) or something similar. My post: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=utf-8safe=offselm=1 9W2K-6UJ-11%40gated-at.bofh.it Seems to be the same issue: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=utf-8safe=offselm=1 b1Ws-4Sl-13%40gated-at.bofh.it Possibly related: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%5BSamba%5D+Issues+with+SMBFShl=enlr=i e=UTF-8oe=utf-8safe=offselm=19Dtg-6cT-23%40gated-at.bofh.itrnum=1 Also, searching Google reveals other reports of the same or similar issues (some fairly old). If so I'll commit to get it fixed for 3.0.2 final - but if it's a only happens sometimes kind of thing it will take longer and probably not make 3.0.2. I can reproduce it on my machine. I only have the one Linux box and one Windows box, but this problem has persisted for months while I've gone from Redhat 9 to SuSE 9, through various kernel versions (all 2.4.*) and a complete reinstall on the Windows side. (I'm running 3.0.1 now, btw, though I original discovered the issue in 2.2.x) It seems to happen fairly consistently, though it's worse at times than others. The more files in a directory, the more likely it is to occur. Send me details asap (I'm in Australia at the moment so will be working funny timezones). I filed a bug report which details some of my findings: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939 I hope it wasn't too rambling. Take this with several hundred grains of salt, but it seems to me, from looking at Ethereal captures, that it could actually be a problem on the Windows side. The XP box appear to, at random times, skip a directory item on FIND_NEXT2 commands. Also, Michael Pflüger reported that using CIFS solved the problem. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do that (though I did try, always ending in a target server not found and error 22). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files
We have setup samba share between XP and Redhat 8.0. We usually deal with copying directories with 1000 files over samba share. When we copy, we always find that few files are randomly skipped in copying and one has to copy few times to get all the files. Is this a known problem and is there any fix for this? If you are mounting a share from your XP machine then yes, it's a known problem. Though I don't recall anyone from the samba team actually acknowledging it, I have the problem and I have seen several other reports of this problem. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] weird samba bug? some files from shares sometimes missing..
Hello, well, i have a weird problem: i mounted a share, shared on winxp, on my gentoo linux box via mount -t smbfs.. everything seems to work - seems. When i started to backup files with rdiff-backup, i noticed that it reported about new and deleted files, yet those were never deleted and are still present on the source share on the windows machine. I thought it might be a bug in rdiff-backup, yet that is not the case, ls /share | wc reports very often 509, sometimes even 508, 507 and 506 files, even though there are 510 files in the directory on the share. Ok I thought, maybe a bug in a recent samba version or something - yet ive tried it on two gentoo machines, one using kernel 2.6/samba 3.0.1,gcc 3.3.2, and the other one kernel 2.4.23/samba 2.2.8a/gcc 3.2.3 - and ive also tried it with another windows box, the result is the same. When i access the share via a windows box, it works ok and always shows 510 files. Each backup process, which checked about 40.000 files, only a few files were missing, so when you only check folders with only a few files you might not notice this at all.. I really hope someone can help me here, a backup with missing files aint really nice I don't have anything that would help solve the problem, but it might be helpful to know that you aren't alone. My post to the list about it: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8safe=offselm=19 W2K-6UJ-11%40gated-at.bofh.it Other similar reports: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=sambam=102458988807544w=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 It seems to be a problem on the Windows side--I've verified that my Windows XP box is skipping files when sending directory listings--, but if I use a smbclient command to retrieve a listing then there are no missing items, so it also appears to be related to how the request is made from the Linux side. I looked into breaking my directory requests up into smaller chunks, but anything with a wildcard in it seems to submit a search pattern of '\*' which I suppose is then filtered on the client side. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Missing Directory Entries (SMBFS)
Following up on this (please feel free to tell me if there is a more appropriate place to post this info)... My smbfs directory entries began to show up missing more frequently today, so I ran ethereal on the Windows box and captured 2 directory listings. One capture was of an ls of the directory which was complete and the other has a missing entry. What I found around the problem area was, a FIND_NEXT2 request from my Linux box which resulted in 1 FIND_NEXT2 response and 2 NBSS continuation messages containing the entry list up to the missing entry, then another FIND_NEXT2 requests whose response began after the missing entry. In other words, the Windows machine never sent the directory entry for the missing item (it just skipped over it), which implies a problem with the Windows (server) side. From what I can tell, the missing entry is always the entry which should have been first in a FIND_NEXT2 response, so it's a problem of the FIND_NEXT2 response sometimes being off by one file further into the search than it should be. Noting that I never get this problem with 'smbclient //server/share -U user%pass -c dir' I captured one of those and I can see that the smbclient dir command does things quite a bit differently. Since I know very little about how the protocol works, I won't go into all the differences (which may be irrelevant). -Original Message- 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. [snip] 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. [snip] What I know: Directories with fewer items don't have this problem. The larger the directory, the more missing entries. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Missing Directory Entries (SMBFS)
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=sambam=102458988807544w=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
RE: [Samba] Issues with SMBFS
Hi, I am using samba version 2.2.3 on a Red Hat Linux machine with kernel version 2.4.18. When I use smbfs to map a Windows share, I cannot list all the files in the directory. ls -l does not return anything and ls returns some files not all. Can you please let me know what the issue might be or how I should go about troubleshooting this? Thanks in Advance. Rashmi Hi Rashmi, I've been having a similar problem with smbfs mounts (see: Missing Directory Entries (SMBFS)). Are you running antivirus software on the Windows machine? After running out of ideas, I've been wondering if my Norton AV's autoprotect feature may be causing problems. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
