samba - Jan 2004 - disappearing files

Samba 2.2.7-3.7.2 on Redhat 7.3 

Have a samba server setup that has been running for over a year now..... 
fairly simple configuration - it is functioning as a stand=alone server 
with smbpasswd backend. Everything has been working properly until 
recently - now randomly some directories do not display their contents. 
There are files in the directory, I've checked the ownership/rights on the 
files themselves - the logged in user owns the files, and the directory. 
They have rights to the Samba share by the "valid users" parameter. 

The directory (in this case) that isn't showing up is three levels deep: 

/Sambashare
        /ME
                /Tempstuff <---- this directory of files isn't showing
up.


I've set the log level to 10, and I'm not seeing anything glaring going
on
there, either. I cannot upgrade this server to 3.0x, otherwise, I'd 
probably go in that direction. 

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108

To reply to my own message, I have finally found something in the logs 
that indicates a permission denied error, as follows: 

when attempting to read the directory, on one entry the following shows: 

get_lanman2_dir_entry: Couldn't stat [Filename in directory structure] 
(Permission Denied) 

At the samba/share level, things should be okay. At the unix file system 
level, like I said, the user is the owner of the file. 

Ideas? 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108 

samba-bounces+jonlists=cbsol.com@lists.samba.org wrote on 01/14/2004 
02:49:35 PM:
> Samba 2.2.7-3.7.2 on Redhat 7.3 
> 
> Have a samba server setup that has been running for over a year now..... 
> fairly simple configuration - it is functioning as a stand=alone server 
> with smbpasswd backend. Everything has been working properly until 
> recently - now randomly some directories do not display their contents. 
> There are files in the directory, I've checked the ownership/rights on 
the 
> files themselves - the logged in user owns the files, and the directory. 
> They have rights to the Samba share by the "valid users"
parameter.
> 
> The directory (in this case) that isn't showing up is three levels
deep:
> 
> /Sambashare
>         /ME
>                 /Tempstuff <---- this directory of files isn't
showing
up. 
> 
> 
> I've set the log level to 10, and I'm not seeing anything glaring
going
on 
> there, either. I cannot upgrade this server to 3.0x, otherwise, I'd 
> probably go in that direction. 
> 
> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Jon Johnston
> Creative Business Solutions
> IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
> http://www.cbsol.com
> 952-544-1108 
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