samba issues

[linux system messages]

Hello Bill.
I've got it going.
You wouldn't believe in that, but it is true.

while i had all that trouble with files go missing, i had in smb.conf :
share name [tmp] located in var/tmp (on second server path to share was
/tmp/ica).
i renamed [tmp] to [share] and moved it shared dir to /var/aaa...
and magically all fixed now. yesterday i had an opinion of MCCALL,DON that
my problem could be something to do with how mandrake cleaning up temporary
files in tmp dirs, so following that opinion i've tried to rename share just
in case and moved it to some directory without tmp in path.
I'm not too sure at the moment, what exactly was the trouble maker (mandrake
clening up tmp directory or win2k taking linux share, named tmp as it's own
tmp folder, but ...magic.... after 24 hours online and quiet a few win2k
boxes reboots all files still there, all 3 linux samba server up and running
just great
Thanks a lot for your precious time
Kindest regards to all Linux users.
Alexander Moloksher.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at iowna.com>
To: "Alexander" <user at compulabs.dhs.org>
Cc: "MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" <don_mccall at hp.com>; <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: samba issues


> 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
>