smbfs does not report all files

[Bruce LaZerte]

** Reply to message from Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest.se> on Tue, 19 Sep
2000 19:05:54 +0200 (CEST)

>> 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?

Neither. They were writen and created some time ago by another PC, before
Linux+smbfs was installed on the PC with the problem.

>If created; were they created from a different machine?

Yes.
...
>That is fixed in 2.2.17 by always refreshing on a new dir access. Is a
>LanServer an OS/2 thingy? 

Yes.

>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.

No. It's very consistent. Same directories, same files.

I believe the recent Linux Mandrake beta3 update uses the newer kernals,
perhaps more recent than the 2.2.18pre8 you mentioned. I'll look there first.

Many thanks for the quick reply.

Bruce 

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Bruce LaZerte 
Grandview Lake in Muskoka
Ontario, Canada