Can't view directories in 2.2.1a with win98's explorer

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Oct 1 18:46:02 GMT 2001


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Bergman Janne wrote:

>
>
>
> 	I've a RedHat 6.2 system on which I had samba-2.0.7 installed.
> Everything worked perfectly and I was able to see everything in the
> samba volumes in win98's exlorer.
>
> 	I updated to samba-2.2.1a from the RPM package available at the
> samba.org website.
>
> 	After the update I no longer can see any directories in windows
> explorer or in e.g. Word's open documents dialog. The directories do
> exist and I can move into them in the open dialog by manually typing
> in the name of a directory.

...
> 	From the smb.<client> log file there are lines of the following
> kind when using 2.2.1a:
>
> 	When using the command promt, the mask used is only '*'.
>

Do you have "nt smb support = no" by chance in smb.conf?
If so, set it to yes and try again.





cheers, jerry

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