[Samba] deleting files problem

[David Morel]

Bill Dossett wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got what I think is a pretty weird problem.
>
> I'm using redhat 8.0 and their latest samba rpm 2.2.7.
>
> I have a directory
>
> /virtuals/SAMARCAN/asterion_caen/hd4008/tiffout
>
> with about 600 tiff files in it.
>
> When I go this directory and try and delete them,
> it deletes about 100 of them or so, but while this
> is going on, it says:
>
> N:\virtuals\SAMARCAN\asterion_caen\hd4008\tiffout\hd40006530.TIFF
> the system cannot find the file specified
>
> and doesn't delete the rest.. if I do it again, it deletes more
> file, but messages still appear, doing it aout 5 or 6 times and
> all files are deleted.
>
> I upped log level to 5 in samba and it mentions mangling file names
> but couldn't really see any answser there...
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour or know what is causing it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill

have you tried setting : mangling method = hash2 in smb.conf ?
in directories with lots of similar filenames, it might help.