[Samba] File Disappearance after copy?

[eholden at mclean.harvard.edu]

Jerry,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.  Yes, I also suspect that this is a
problem with the sending Mac server simply dropping the file.  Both are
Samba, of course, but I think that the Mac might do some unusual things
when it tries to write the file, including creating a .DS_Store file, as
well as a temporary version of the target file beginning with the ._
string.

I did a level 10 debug, and there is a huge amount of text to sort
through.  I guess a lot can happen in several seconds.  Out of thousands
of lines of code I was able to find what I think are the last few that
deal with the upload of a file called gnu-linux.pdf, which I copied to the
folder "\NRL Databases" and which immediately disappeared.

There are a lot of instances of filename mangling, opening the file,
closing the file and so forth, spanning many lines, so I didn't include it
all.  But this is, I think, the very end.  Is there anything I should be
looking for in all of this?

Thanks again,
Ed

[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(245)
  NRLADMIN opened file NRL Databases/gnu-linux.pdf read=Yes write=No
(numopen=1)
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] smbd/open.c:open_file_shared1(1042)
  open_file_shared : share_mode = 10
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/locking.c:set_share_mode(692)
  set_share_mode: creating entry for file NRL Databases/gnu-linux.pdf.
num_share_modes = 1
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/locking.c:print_share_mode_table(445)
  print_share_mode_table: share_mode_entry[0]: pid = 1838, share_mode =
0x10, desired_access = 0x10000, port = 0x0, type= 0x0, file_id = 27, dev
= 0x801, inode = 65538
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/locking.c:del_share_entry(604)
  del_share_entry: num_share_modes = 1
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/locking.c:del_share_entry(609)
  del_share_entry: deleted share_mode_entry[0]: pid = 1838, share_mode =
0x10, desired_access = 0x10000, port = 0x0, type= 0x0, file_id = 27, dev
= 0x801, inode = 65538
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/locking.c:del_share_entry(617)
  del_share_entry: deleting entry 0
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/locking.c:del_share_entry(639)
  del_share_entry: Remaining table.
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(153)
  close_normal_file: share_entry_count = 0 for file NRL
Databases/gnu-linux.pdf
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 10] locking/posix.c:posix_locking_close_file(1245)
  posix_locking_close_file: file NRL Databases/gnu-linux.pdf has no
outstanding locks.
[2003/11/12 11:11:44, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(213)
  nrladmin closed file NRL Databases/gnu-linux.pdf (numopen=0)



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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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