samba - Dec 2002 - deleting files problem

Hi,

I've got what I think is a pretty weird problem.

I'm using redhat 8.0 and their latest samba rpm 2.2.7.

I have a directory

/virtuals/SAMARCAN/asterion_caen/hd4008/tiffout

with about 600 tiff files in it.

When I go this directory and try and delete them,
it deletes about 100 of them or so, but while this
is going on, it says:

N:\virtuals\SAMARCAN\asterion_caen\hd4008\tiffout\hd40006530.TIFF
the system cannot find the file specified

and doesn't delete the rest.. if I do it again, it deletes more
file, but messages still appear, doing it aout 5 or 6 times and
all files are deleted.

I upped log level to 5 in samba and it mentions mangling file names
but couldn't really see any answser there...

Has anyone else seen this behaviour or know what is causing it?

Thanks

Bill

Bill Dossett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got what I think is a pretty weird problem.
>
> I'm using redhat 8.0 and their latest samba rpm 2.2.7.
>
> I have a directory
>
> /virtuals/SAMARCAN/asterion_caen/hd4008/tiffout
>
> with about 600 tiff files in it.
>
> When I go this directory and try and delete them,
> it deletes about 100 of them or so, but while this
> is going on, it says:
>
> N:\virtuals\SAMARCAN\asterion_caen\hd4008\tiffout\hd40006530.TIFF
> the system cannot find the file specified
>
> and doesn't delete the rest.. if I do it again, it deletes more
> file, but messages still appear, doing it aout 5 or 6 times and
> all files are deleted.
>
> I upped log level to 5 in samba and it mentions mangling file names
> but couldn't really see any answser there...
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour or know what is causing it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
have you tried setting : mangling method = hash2 in smb.conf ?
in directories with lots of similar filenames, it might help.

On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 21:42, David Morel wrote:
> have you tried setting : mangling method = hash2 in smb.conf ?
> in directories with lots of similar filenames, it might help.
Be aware that changing the mangling method on production machines may
break some server installations, cause the mangled name will be
different and a file name saved in the registry will not match anymore.

So be careful.

Simo.

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your bet was right.. fumbling fingers and neglected running
testparm...

imangling method = hash2

don't work :-(

where as

mangling method = hash2

worked splendidly.
Luckily, I'm only using this server for testing
how well samba works under load, so all data is
considered junk at all times ... hopefully, in a
few weeks, it will be heading for production though
and I'll be rid of the last windoze server in my
server den...

Thanks to all



Bill


daniel.jarboe@custserv.com wrote:
> My bet was hash2 too... what exactly was it that you tried?  Did you
> repopulate the directory after setting the new mangling method?  Not
> sure, but it might make a difference (i.e. copy the files from the
> server to somewhere safe, set mangling method = hash2 in smb.conf,
> restart samba, copy files back to the server, see if things work
> better).  I haven't needed to do this (I started with mangling method
> already set to hash2), so no guarentees it will fix anything, but it's
> what I would try first if I were in your situation.
> 
> ~ Daniel
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Dossett
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:18 AM
> To: samba list
> Subject: Re: [Samba] deleting files problem
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David Morel wrote:
> 
>>Bill Dossett wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've got what I think is a pretty weird problem.
>>>
>>>I'm using redhat 8.0 and their latest samba rpm 2.2.7.
>>>
>>>I have a directory
>>>
>>>/virtuals/SAMARCAN/asterion_caen/hd4008/tiffout
>>>
>>>with about 600 tiff files in it.
>>>
>>>When I go this directory and try and delete them,
>>>it deletes about 100 of them or so, but while this
>>>is going on, it says:
>>>
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>have you tried setting : mangling method = hash2 in smb.conf ?
>>in directories with lots of similar filenames, it might help.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> tried that, made no difference... this isn't really a production
> system yet so I can pretty much do what I want to with it....
> any other ideas welcome...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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