[Samba] File Disappearance after copy?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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eholden at mclean.harvard.edu wrote:
| Hi.  I'm converting a group that was using Mac OS
| X Server (we were dissatisfied) to Mandrake PPC
| Linux with Samba.  The Mandrake-supplied package is
| version 2.2.7a-8mdk.  So far it works great - but
| we have a serious and odd problem that I couldn't
| find in previous postings to this list.
|
| When I copy files from an OS X server to this
| Mandrake/Samba server they usually disappear.  Which is
| bad, from a service point of view.  I can often copy a
| single file to the share and it works fine, but subsequent
| files vanish.

I would suggest getting a network trace and looking
for any SMBunlink commands showung up.  You could get
a samba level 10 debug log and do the same thing.  My
guess is that the mac server is deleting the file
and Samba is just doing what it was told to do.





cheers, jerry
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