Weird Folder Looping

[DavidAtkinson at solectron.com]

Chris,
That problem relates to Symbolic References. You can turn off this behaviour
with a directive like follow symbolic link = no, but you will have to check
the manual. I have this behaviour on my servers too, and I mostly just
ignore it, but you can either disable it or you can tel your users not to
try going down all these directories.



Regards
David Atkinson

System Administrator
Solectron Australia
Phone: +61 3 5720-2556
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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry, Christopher [mailto:cbarry at infiniconsys.com]
Sent: Friday, 21 September 2001 9:35 AM
To: Samba-Ntdom (E-mail)
Subject: Weird Folder Looping


Hi. Has anyone seen the behavior of having explorer folder traversal
loop? By this I mean, directories repeat over and over.
 
As an example, say the samba server has a share on it called documents.
I'll navigate to a file 3 or 4 directories beneath documents. Let's say
the path looks like:
 
documents\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\somefile.txt
 
As I expand the tree, it can drop back to the root of documents, adding
ghost directories, like:
 
documents\dir1\dir2\dir1\dir2\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\somefile.txt
 
It's flaky. Has anyone seen this? Not all of our win2k boxes produce
this problem, all are at sp2. I'm using msdfs with samba 2.2.1a
 
Thanks,

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 <mailto:cbarry at infiniconsys.com> Christopher Barry
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