samba - Dec 2001 - Directory problems - not active directory

I use samba every day, and it works perfectly except :

I work for a reseller of a contact manager which runs on windows, doesn't 
support UNC pathnames, but does support mapped drives, to all real windows 
servers, and with an option, to a novell server.

The trouble is, this program uses directory structure intensively and 
doesn't seem to be able to create directories properly on a samba 
share.  There is no error, but it simply doesn't work.  You add a contact, 
and it cannot be seen.  I would appreciate it if someone can either suggest 
some things to try or would be willing to install it on a client on their 
samba server to play about with the logging, and understand what is not 
working correctly.  I have tried the obvious things, and the share works in 
explorer and DOS as far as making directories are concerned, but not to the 
program.  I firmly believe it is an application error rather than a 
configuration error on the samba machine.

I would really appreciate any help and/or suggestions.


Martyn Ranyard
Development Manager
Synergistic Software
www.syn.co.uk
(01937) 573 446
(0113) 20 50 895
fax (01937) 574 211

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:04:23PM +0000, Martyn Ranyard
wrote:
> I use samba every day, and it works perfectly except :
> 
> I work for a reseller of a contact manager which runs on windows,
doesn't
> support UNC pathnames, but does support mapped drives, to all real windows 
> servers, and with an option, to a novell server.
> 
> The trouble is, this program uses directory structure intensively and 
> doesn't seem to be able to create directories properly on a samba 
> share.  There is no error, but it simply doesn't work.  You add a
contact,
> and it cannot be seen.  I would appreciate it if someone can either suggest
> some things to try or would be willing to install it on a client on their 
> samba server to play about with the logging, and understand what is not 
> working correctly.  I have tried the obvious things, and the share works in
> explorer and DOS as far as making directories are concerned, but not to the
> program.  I firmly believe it is an application error rather than a 
> configuration error on the samba machine.
> 
> I would really appreciate any help and/or suggestions.
If you can send me a copy of the program and a way to reproduce
the error I'll try and make it work on Samba in the same way it
does against W2k/WNT.

Thanks,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.