samba issues

[Bill Moran]

Alexander wrote:
> 
> looks like this is something to do with filesystem. ihad a look in log files
> just now and nothing seems to be with any os activity.
> on second server share name is /var/share and still it's being wiped out.
> windows boxes are win2k sp1. files are not going missing in a second. it
> takes few hours to get that. i have 777 permissions on shared directory
> right now.
> on second server we moved about 4 gig of data. we checked all files ater we
> finished with copying, even crc's, and nearly all of it gone overnight. once
> again in share root everything seems to be OK.

That's truely strange. Have you searched throught the samba log files to
see if there's any indication of what happened? If not, try setting the
debugging value higher. I've been using Samba under moderate load with
no problems for a few months now in two seperate installations.

-Bill