Weird Folder Looping

[David A. Mason]

I'm sorry about the whole unsubstantiated rumor thing, but I know it
happened on NT4 SP4 with NT4, 2000Pro, Win95, Win98, Mac clients at an
office in San Francisco where I used to work, and it also happened at a
client running NT4 SP6 with the same spread of clients.

I have access to neither office, now, and I didn't document it, because I'd
just delete the folders now and then.

I think for some reason, at the time, I blamed the Macs, but that might have
been plain, old superstition.

DAM
----- Original Message -----
From: <DavidAtkinson at solectron.com>
To: <damason at davenet.mine.nu>
Cc: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: Weird Folder Looping


> David,
> In that case I have no idea. I have, however, only ever seen this problem
> with some of my samba servers, and I was able to trace it all back to
> looping sym links. Could you please send some details of the problem as
you
> have seen it on your NT systems as I want to try and replicate the
results.
> You've got me interested now. I have evedently never actually seen the
> problem you are refering to.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Mason [mailto:damason at davenet.mine.nu]
> Sent: Saturday, 22 September 2001 10:13 AM
> To: Mark Cooke; DavidAtkinson at solectron.com
> Cc: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Weird Folder Looping
>
>
> I don't think this one is Samba/symlinks' fault. I've seen it on NT file
> servers, myself (even with no Linux clients).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Cooke" <mpc at star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
> To: <DavidAtkinson at solectron.com>
> Cc: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:06 PM
> Subject: RE: Weird Folder Looping
>
>
> > I have seen this behaviour between two installs of samba.  We have a
> > Linux based backup server (2.2.1a) using smbtar to do weekly archives
> > of various desktop machines.
> >
> > The desktops are a mix of Win2000/NT4/solaris 2.6 with samba 2.2.1a
> >
> > I have seen this behaviour recently causing backups to fail by
> > crashing the smbtar and have been trying to pin it down.
> > Unfortunately, I need the backups to follow some sym links.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 DavidAtkinson at solectron.com wrote:
> >
> > > 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.>
> > >
> > > -----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
> >
> > --
> >
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> > Mark Cooke                  The views expressed above are mine and are
not
> > Systems Programmer          necessarily representative of university
> policy
> > University Of Birmingham    URL: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/
> >
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