[Samba] mounted directory repeating unexpected files and directories

[Uriel Avalos]

So let me get this straight? When you access the fileshare from a client computer, you don't see all the files?

Does the user you log in as and the user that gets mapped to the share have permissions to view all files? Could be a permissions problem. Who owns the missing files and what are their permissions?


On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 06:04:12AM -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
>
>
> and the server configuration is:
>
> # cat /etc/smb.conf
> [global]
> server string=MyBookMusic
> workgroup=workgroup
> interfaces=192.168.1.20/24 127.0.0.1/8
> security=user
> smb passwd file=/var/private/smbpasswd
> private dir=/var/private
> guest account=www-data
> dns proxy=No
> lock directory=/var/locks
> pid directory=/var/locks
> use sendfile=Yes
> map to guest = Bad User
> create mask = 755
> map hidden = Yes
> veto files = /shares/internal/.senvidData/ /shares/internal/lost+found/
> max log size = 1
>
> [dummy-2]
> include=/var/oxsemi/shares.inc
>
> # cat /var/oxsemi/shares.inc
> [PUBLIC]
> path=/shares/internal/PUBLIC
> force user=www-data
> valid users=www-data noah
> write list=www-data noah
> guest ok=Yes
>
> [Music]
> path=/shares/internal/Music
> force user=noah
> valid users=www-data BACKUP noah
> write list=www-data BACKUP noah
> guest ok=Yes
> browseable=yes
> writable=yes
> security mask=0700
> create mask=0700
>
>
> Cheers,
> Noah
>
>
>
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