[Samba] Files missing when using windows XP and samba

[Paul Dunphy]

Hi Stuart,

By any chance, are the missing files very large? I am having a similar 
problem with Samba 3.0.14a on Irix 6.5.17, and in my case it appears to 
be related to file size. Large files (>1.2 GB) and the folders 
containing them do not show up on the Windows client. This problem did 
not exist in my previous version of Samba, 3.0.0 (which I've been forced 
to revert to).

Cheers,
Paul

Stuart Bailey wrote:

> Hi,
> I am using Fedora Core 3 as a server for both Unix (Solaris and HPUX) and 
> Windows Xp clients. The Unix clients view the files through an NFS v3 share, 
> and windows client use samba (3.0.8-0.pre1.3).
> When looking at a directory from the server, or from a Unix client, I can see 
> 132 files. However, from the Windows client, I can only see 65 files. There 
> appear to be nothing special about the files names (we have already removed 
> spaces etc from the filenames incase they caused a problem).
> If I mount the samba shares via smbfs on the server (to a new mount point), I 
> can see all 132 files, so I suspect the problem is not samba.
> I have checked the file permissions, and although they have various owners, 
> all permissions are 666. There seems to be no consistency between files that 
> are missing.
> I have tried a number of different Xp machines and they all exhibit the same 
> symptoms.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Stuart.
>