[Samba] Help, Phantom directories-missing data

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 21:23, Greg Talbot wrote:
> I have documented this problems 3 times now am am currently experiencing
> the worst one yet.
> 
> I have samba shares that come up missing after a machine reboot while
> clients are connected to some shares.
> It seems to only be those directories that are mapped to samba, the
> share's still show up via a windows client but no data.  (like missing 20 gigs)
> Even from teh Linux machine, I cant see the data.  The last time this
> happened a couple reboots and my data reappeared.  Is this filesystem
> related? Anyone ever heard of this?  This time after 3 reboots some of teh
> dir structure has returned, but no data yet...

Define "disappear". You dont see some files? Or directories too?
Which names (provide dir or ls output of 'good' and 'bad' situation)?
smb.conf?
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