Re: [Samba] files disappearing from Samba server

2008-10-03 Thread Tim Bates
Onatawahtaw wrote: Can you verify from the server that the file is gone as well. Could it be that the file actually does exist on the server, but they cannot see it on the Windows mount? Or the other thing, where some idiot's moved it to a subdirectory without realising. I had that from a

Re: [Samba] files disappearing from Samba server

2008-10-02 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Robert, Du (rwickberg) meintest am 01.10.08: I'm the tech coordinator for a high school. Last year, we had a file server kids could save work to that was a generic Celeron 800 PC with an IDE hard drive. It ran Debian Sarge, with whatever version of Samba ships with that. It was

Re: [Samba] files disappearing from Samba server

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Wickberg
The files that are reported missing are missing if I log in an look via a shell, too. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Helmut Hullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, Robert, Du (rwickberg) meintest am 01.10.08: I'm the tech coordinator for a high school. Last year, we had a file server

Re: [Samba] files disappearing from Samba server

2008-10-02 Thread Steve Rippl
Sorry if I'm pointing out something obvious that you've already checked, but are you sure it isn't a problem with the client machines failing to map the drive? I think if the home drive fails to map a windows client (XP at least, that's what we use here) defaults to using the local drive for the

Re: [Samba] files disappearing from Samba server

2008-10-02 Thread Onatawahtaw
Heya, Can you verify from the server that the file is gone as well. Could it be that the file actually does exist on the server, but they cannot see it on the Windows mount? -Kevin I've had dozens of kids come up to me and claim that they've written files to their mapped shares (P: maps

[Samba] files disappearing from Samba server

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Wickberg
I'm the tech coordinator for a high school. Last year, we had a file server kids could save work to that was a generic Celeron 800 PC with an IDE hard drive. It ran Debian Sarge, with whatever version of Samba ships with that. It was down to a couple of gig of free disk space by the end of the