[Samba] mounted directory repeating unexpected files and directories

[rhubbell]

Post your server config?
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:15 -0800, Noah wrote:
> Hi Samba List,
> 
> I am finding a strange problem between a mount samba directory.  Any
> clues why this is happening?
> 
> The server side is WD MyBook World Edition II and the export directory
> is:  /shares/internal/Music/
> 
> on the client site I am mounting the directory to /mnt/mybook-music
> the client is an ubuntu server
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux tsunami 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686
> GNU/Linux
> $ mount
> /dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
> varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> //192.168.1.20/Music on /mnt/mybook-music type cifs (rw,mand)
> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> 
> 
> Now here is the issue.
> 
> The directory views for a particular directory are not the same on
> server vs. the client side.
> 
>  From the client side I do an 'ls -l /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music |
> wc -l' see that the output equals the line could of 'mnt/mybook-music'
> 
> $ ls -l /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music | wc -l
> 2242
> $ ls -l /mnt/mybook-music | wc -l
> 2242
> 
> now on the server side
> # ls -l /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music | wc -l
> 4
> [root at MyBookMusic Madonna]# ls -l /shares/internal/Music | wc -l
> 2242
> 
> The client sees all the files that are displayed from 'ls
> /mnt/mybook-music' command and also displayed from an 'ls
> /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music' command.
> 
> where on the server side 'ls -l /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music'
> does not show the contents of '/shares/internal/Music' and only show 3
> files.
> 
> # ls -l /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music
> total 11396
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 noah noah 3345473 Apr 11  2006 Gone.mp3
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 noah noah 3483214 May  3  2005 Impressive Instant.mp3
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 noah noah 4814848 May  3  2005 Nobody's Perfect.mp3
> 
> server side version details:
> [root at MyBookMusic Madonna]# ipkg list_installed | grep samba
> samba - 3.2.4-1 - Samba suite provides file and print services to
> SMB/CIFS clients.
> 
> client version details:
> $ dpkg --list | grep samba
> ii  samba                                      3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.7
>                              a LanManager-like file and printer server
> for Unix
> ii  samba-common                               3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.7
>                              Samba common files used by both the server
> and the clien
> 
> 
> the client mounted //192.168.1.20/Music from the fstab.
> 
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/hdb1
> UUID=e0b6f66b-b3f6-44f4-b5b6-e2cfb6e32048 /               ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/hdb5
> UUID=e1d2239f-b911-4ee2-848e-6bcb3672104d none            swap    sw
>            0       0
> /dev/hdd                /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0
>       0
> /dev/hdc                /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0
>       0
> //192.168.1.20/Music    /mnt/mybook-music smbfs
> userid=<username>,passwd=<password>,rw 0 0
> 
> Cheers,
> Noah
>