I'm running Samba 3.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04. This is a recent upgrade and
we've starting experience a sporadic problem after this upgrade.
When users are browsing through Windows Explorer they sometimes run
across folders that appear as unassociated files. This requires the
user to click the 'Refresh' button in Windows Explorer to properly see
the folders. The files and folders are hosted on our Ubuntu server and
shared with Samba and accessed on the Windows clients through various
mapped network drives.
The files on the Ubuntu server shared through Samba are actually
MOUNTED onto the Ubuntu server from a Windows XP "server" that is
hosting the files locally.
This is truly a bad idea. That XP share should be mounted by the
workstations just like the server shares. Move the data to the
server, or use the XP box as a server to directly serve those who need
the data on it.
Cheers,
TMS III
These mounted files and folders are what is giving the users trouble
in seeing folders correctly. We have other files hosted locally on the
Ubuntu server and shared through Samba, but these are NOT giving us
problems when browsing them through Windows Explorer. The only files
that are giving us this problem are the mounted files.
I've noticed that every time I come across a list of folders in
Windows Explorers that look like unassociated files, I get the
following error messages in /var/log/samba/log.smbd :
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error packet at smbd/nttrans.c(563) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
[2010/07/06 15:56:24, 3] smbd/process.c:1459(process_smb)
[2010/07/06 15:56:24, 3] smbd/error.c:60(error_packet_set)
error packet at smbd/nttrans.c(563) cmd=162 (SMBntcreateX)
NT_STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY
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The mounting of the files is done through /etc/fstab with CIFS as the
mount type.
The only solution I can think of would be to move the mounted files to
the Ubuntu server so they are hosted locally. Like I said, we are
already doing this with some directories, and we are not experiencing
a problem browsing through those.
If anyone has any ideas I would be glad to know. Thanks.
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