samba - May 2005 - HELP !!! samba shows shares without content

Hello,

I've upgraded to samba 3.0.14a on several Debian Sarge machines, but
this morning it went wrong. The update went fine, users (XP SP2) can
logon and all the mapped drives and printers are visible. Only when they
click on the drive, no content is shown. Outlook can however access the
outlook.mdb which lives in a subdir on the home drive ???

I've run the default tests to check for faults, but couldn'f find any.
Loglevel up to 5 didn't give any clues to why it goes wrong.

When I log in as a user with smbclient //SERVER/user (on the server) I
get connected to it's home share. A dir command only shows the . (dot)
and .. entry's.

I can make a new directory with mkdir TESTDIR, but a dir command doesn't
show it. I can even cd TESTDIR. BTW TESTDIR is created in the users home
dir with the proper permissions.

The only (relevant?) thing I found in the log was about the
sys_get_vfs_quota() failing on /dev/md0 (/home) with an invalid
argument. However I get this same failure with another server that has
no problems.

Any one has a clue to what causes this problem?

- Remy -

Remy Cool wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've upgraded to samba 3.0.14a on several Debian Sarge machines, but
> this morning it went wrong. The update went fine, users (XP SP2) can
> logon and all the mapped drives and printers are visible. Only when they
> click on the drive, no content is shown. Outlook can however access the
> outlook.mdb which lives in a subdir on the home drive ???
> 
> I've run the default tests to check for faults, but couldn'f find
any.
> Loglevel up to 5 didn't give any clues to why it goes wrong.
> 
> When I log in as a user with smbclient //SERVER/user (on the server) I
> get connected to it's home share. A dir command only shows the . (dot)
> and .. entry's.
> 
> I can make a new directory with mkdir TESTDIR, but a dir command
doesn't
> show it. I can even cd TESTDIR. BTW TESTDIR is created in the users home
> dir with the proper permissions.
> 
> The only (relevant?) thing I found in the log was about the
> sys_get_vfs_quota() failing on /dev/md0 (/home) with an invalid
> argument. However I get this same failure with another server that has
> no problems.
> 
> Any one has a clue to what causes this problem?
If probably found the answer to this problem.
The bugreport: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2514 reports
the same problem and the 'temporary' solution.

I've set hide special files = No and the dir command in the smbclient
session now lists the files.

Why hide special files was set to 'Yes' in the first place is a bit
weird since I didn't set it. Maybe the debian upgrade modified smb.conf.
Cups support was also replaced with bsd.

Tomorrow I'll verify if the problem is realy solved.

- Remy -