[Samba] Desktop.ini and samba - Please comment

Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 AJAVID1 at motorola.com
Wed Jul 31 16:44:01 GMT 2002


Thanks

here is the brief info

user on nfs mounted unix share ( home directory ) : platform solaris 2.6
samba 2.0.7 and samba2.2.5  running on independent ultra suns
users win2k clients

smb.conf ( homes section )

[homes]
	   available = yes
	   comment = Home Directory for [%u] [%H] via Samba
	   create mask = 0755
	   delete readonly = yes
	   hide dot files = yes
	   preserve case = yes
	   wide links = true
	   browseable = yes
	   follow symlinks = true
	   writeable = yes
	
users unix home directory listing:
	
		
	users unix home directory listing:
	
	
	
	drwxr-xr-x  35 david  testgrp       8192 Jul 31 14:58 /home/david
	
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp         53 May 21  1996 script1*
	drwxr-xr-x   2 d  testgrp       4096 Jul 24  1996 wvannot/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp       6477 Jan 22  1997 weekly_status*
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp        688 Oct 24  1997 pc*
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Dec 26  1997 public/
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp       2888 Mar 30  1998 Plus_Goals_98*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp        785 Apr 21  1998
vacation.message*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp       2200 May 28  1998 file.tap*
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp      18432 Jun 10  1998 magy01.xls*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp        785 Jun 19  1998
vacation.backup*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp          3 Jun 19  1998 vacation*
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Sep  8  1998
DSC_priorities/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Oct 29  1998 bin/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp          0 Dec  8  1998 **
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Feb 16  1999 021599/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Jun  1  1999 nsmail/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp      26112 Jul 21  1999 KEYNOTE
SPEECH.doc*
	drwxr-xr-x  10 david  testgrp       4096 Jul 22  1999 axhome/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Jul 22  1999 weekly_report/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp        277 Jul 29  1999 vacation_days*
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Aug 10  1999 Status_to_Sue/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp        111 Aug 18  1999 references*
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Nov  4  1999 4186_Feature/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Nov  4  1999 LOGS/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Nov 23  1999 G15_PSOs/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Dec 16  1999
Configuration_Management/
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp      56320 Dec 20  1999
maggy_pc_122099.doc*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp         75 Dec 22  1999 wvlayer*
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp      58880 Jan  6  2000
maggy_pc_010600.doc*
	drwxr-xr-x   3 david  testgrp       4096 Jan 17  2000 EMX-V/
	drwxr-xr-x   3 david  testgrp       4096 Jan 20  2000 public_html/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp      33792 Jan 25  2000
G15loadline.ppt*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp    1446382 Feb  8  2000 MAIL_LOG*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp     217088 Dec  1  2000
Clos_to_clearPRs_120100.xls*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp      11877 Jan 30  2001 cdms*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp       1163 Mar  8  2001
Intercall_info*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp      23040 Apr 12  2001
P1P2_12APR01.xls*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp    2609152 Apr 26  2001 CCT Data.xls*
	drwxr-xr-x  20 david  testgrp       4096 Jun 18  2001 desktop/
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp      29184 Nov 19  2001 maggy.doc*
	-rwx------   1 david  testgrp      27136 Dec 27  2001
maggy122601.doc*
	drwxr-xr-x   4 david  testgrp       4096 Jan 29  2002 windows/
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 david  testgrp     224768 Jan 29  2002
PMO_Test_Reports_Template.xls*
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Mar 21 07:01 Store_mail/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 david  testgrp       4096 Mar 21 07:01 Mail/
	-rw-r--r--   1 david  testgrp       2882 Jun 10 09:20 FIT_613A.pdf
	-rwxrwxr-x   1 david  testgrp      17403 Jul 11 10:50
w17_test_status.pdf
	
	
when user maps via windows explorer from W2k, lot of these above are not
seen
snapshot of windows explorer view when user map to his unix drive:


when user maps via windows explorer from W2k, lot of these above files and
folder are not seen
ex: public,G15_PSOs,public_html,w17_test_status.pdf are not seen , ( i would
say 50% not seen )
	
	
this is happening to couple of users in envrionment of 300 hunder regular
users ( unix ) who use win2k clients for interoperability


thanks for your patience for reading all this




-----Original Message-----
From: John Benedetto [mailto:jbenedet at unm.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 6:09 PM
To: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: [Samba] Desktop.ini and samba - Please comment


--On Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:36 PM -0500 Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 
<AJAVID1 at motorola.com> wrote:

> thanks for your replies, really appreciate it
>
> i was looking at way to pinpoint the problem that w2k cleint is having
> regarding all files and folder not visible when mapped to unix home drive
>
> can you guys give some thoughts about it as well :-))))

Can you post your smb.conf, so we can see how you've configured the shares? 
(though please remove any comments, to save bandwidth).

Are you trying to access them on the Unix side, and being confused when 
changes don't show on the Windows side?  I think the solution there is to 
have your Unix side people access the file system through Samba - do an 
smbmount (or is it just mount with special options?  I don't use it this 
way, and so can never remember).  I have experienced problems with just 
that - working with files on the Linux server directly, and not having 
changes show through to the windows clients. Sometimes it just took time, 
others I had to restart Samba itself.

Or is it that these are pre-existing files and folders, and they are 
showing some and not showing others?  You could cut 'n paste directory 
listings, so we can see the permissions settings on the actual files & 
folders themselves.

- john




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