[Samba] Truncated list of files/folders when using AWS EFS share

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 06:54 +0000, Pednekar, Shirish via samba wrote:
> Hello Samba Team,
> 
> 
> I have Samba Server Version  4.14.5 installed on RHEL8
> (REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.5")
> Installed on an EC2 instance and the mount is an EFS. I can't list
> all the files/folders browsing from the windows client. The output
> varies depending on the client from which I am looking from.
> However, if I share a local folder rather than an EFS, then I get
> consistent and correct results.
> 
> The writeup below refers the details on the AWS EFS dive only.
> 
> Config in samba.conf
> ---
> [global]
>         realm = SAMPLE.ORG
>         workgroup = EXAM
>         security = ads
>         kerberos method = secrets and keytab
>         template homedir = /home/%U
>         idmap config * : backend = tdb
>         idmap config * : range = 10000-199999
>         idmap config EXAM : backend = sss
>         idmap config EXAM : range = 200000-2147483647

You are using sssd for authentication (this is not maintained by Samba,
hence Samba cannot supply support for it), so I suggest you start by
contacting the sssd-users mailing list for help, either that, or move
to winbind authentication.

Rowland