[Samba] Files missing when using windows XP and samba

[Dane Mutters]

Make sure that there are read permissions on the missing files and read and 
execute permissions on any missing directories.  For files: chmod 644.  For 
directories: chmod 755.

--Dane

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 09:03 pm, Paul Dunphy wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> By any chance, are the missing files very large? I am having a similar
> problem with Samba 3.0.14a on Irix 6.5.17, and in my case it appears to
> be related to file size. Large files (>1.2 GB) and the folders
> containing them do not show up on the Windows client. This problem did
> not exist in my previous version of Samba, 3.0.0 (which I've been forced
> to revert to).
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> Stuart Bailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using Fedora Core 3 as a server for both Unix (Solaris and HPUX) and
> > Windows Xp clients. The Unix clients view the files through an NFS v3
> > share, and windows client use samba (3.0.8-0.pre1.3).
> > When looking at a directory from the server, or from a Unix client, I can
> > see 132 files. However, from the Windows client, I can only see 65 files.
> > There appear to be nothing special about the files names (we have already
> > removed spaces etc from the filenames incase they caused a problem).
> > If I mount the samba shares via smbfs on the server (to a new mount
> > point), I can see all 132 files, so I suspect the problem is not samba.
> > I have checked the file permissions, and although they have various
> > owners, all permissions are 666. There seems to be no consistency between
> > files that are missing.
> > I have tried a number of different Xp machines and they all exhibit the
> > same symptoms.
> >
> > Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Stuart.