Weird Folder Looping

Fri Sep 21 17:43:01 GMT 2001

David,
It may have been the Services for Macintosh (I usually find my gut instincts
are right), but I'll try setting up a test network and see If I can
replecate the results. I do, however believe that this problem is completely
unrelated to the orriginal problems Mark and Barry brought up. Finding Macs
may be hard, though.

For anyone who cares Solectron Corp. (www.solectron.com) has a policy of
using purely Microsoft Software (poor, misguided souls).

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Mason [mailto:damason at davenet.mine.nu]
Sent: Saturday, 22 September 2001 10:30 AM
To: DavidAtkinson at solectron.com
Cc: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org; aspiteri at eatonassoc.com
Subject: Re: Weird Folder Looping

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
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> > Systems Programmer          necessarily representative of university
> policy
> > University Of Birmingham    URL: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/
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