smbfs does not report all files

[Urban Widmark]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 mail at fwr.on.ca wrote:

> Linux Mandrake 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk, smbmount 2.0.6
> 
> Some larger directories exported by LanServer are missing the more recently
> written files when mounted in Linux. Win98 and OS/2 PC's can see them all. 

recently written or recently created?

If created; were they created from a different machine?

If yes on both questions the reason for your problem is probably that the
modification time of directories are not updated when a file is added
(silly assumptions) and that makes smbfs believe that the cached
direntries it has are still current.

That is fixed in 2.2.17 by always refreshing on a new dir access. Is a
LanServer an OS/2 thingy? If so, you need 2.2.18pre8 or later for smbfs to
even talk to your OS/2 server.


If this happens only sometimes (depending on the directoey) and for files
that are only modified and not newly created, you may have found a
different bug.

/Urban