I hope you can help us. We've created a few Samba shares (v2.x) on an HP-UX 11 server and are mounting the shares from a Windows 2003 server. Generally it's OK, but we're having a issues and would like to know if they are known problems, limitations, or errors on our part with the configuration.
1. Files that end in "." (a dot) are producing short-name displays on Windows such as "filen~12" instead of "filename.". When we remove the dot as the last character of the file name, the Windows display works properly and shows the long name. Why would an ending dot produce this behavior? 2. Possibly related to the dot name, in the same folder I have dozens of empty folders. No names, no sizes, no content. Just folders. I suspect that they're a byproduct of the dot problem but I've not tested to be sure. So far, only one folder has these empties in it, and that one has the dot file names. 3. Windows Explorer and file pick events in other apps that use Explorer (such as UltraEdit) only report the first 400-500 files, not all files in the directory. In one extreme case I have an archive directory with over 25,000 files (I don't like it either, but I also didn't design the archive...). Under Windows Explorer, I can only see the first 420 or so, and these are always the oldest files. It gives the false impression that new files are not in the directory. But if I do a Search on "files created in the last week", I'll get all of the files from the last week. 4. Windows Search on Content is failing. To test, we searched on a common element within the files in a share directory (they're all EDI text files). Windows Search could find nothing, DOS FIND found a handful. But the WinGrep utility found everything. Why would Windows Search work on file dates (as discussed above) but not on file content? I also did a search for all files in the dot file directory. The search never stopped by itself. I manually stopped it and it reported tens of thousands of files, way more than the 757 that were actually in the directory. Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer! Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba