The first symptom of this problem was that when saving a Word document to
a samba share, the document simply disappeared.
After some debugging, I discovered that there was a peculiarity in
navigating to the share point in WinXP. Navigating to the share point
using the file manager, to
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop\MyShare
gets me to the remote files, as it should. But if I try to "cd" into
that
directory using CommandPrompt, I see an entirely different set of files
that are apparently stored on the local client disk, and include all the
files I thought were lost. In other words, the filesystem object
"MyShare"
is not unique, which is a really bizarre fault.
Although my gut instinct tells me that this is a Windows problem, I am
wondiering if the use of Samba could have in any way been a contributing
factor.
Details:
I am using samba-3.0.10 as packaged for Fedora Core 2, and a pretty
standard conf file with user-level security. On the Windows side of things
I am using WinXp-sp2.
Most applications (Open Office, etc.) correctly save and retrieve files to
the share; MS Word and CommandPropmt are the exception.
Things worked correctly for several months before the problem started. The
problem persists across both server and client reboots. I have been able
to duplicate the problem on more than one WinXP box.
The folder in question is not a short cut, but the actual folder from "My
Network Places" that's been dragged to the desktop. Using a short cut
fixes the problem.
Thanks,
Nick Barov
