I thought this would be something I could easily find on Google, but all the
hits seem unrelated to this issue.
Short version: Linux file server with Samba on it. On a Mac, when reading a
subfolder in that share, one folder is grayed out and inaccessible.
Full version: On the Linux server, I have a share set up at
/share01/Library/Video. I had a lot of files to copy over onto that hard drive,
including some on an older MacMini. I used "Connect as" from the Mac
and connected as myself (same username and so on from one machine to the other).
While on the Mac, I did a drag and drop to copy the folder Animated onto the
Samba share, creating /share01/Library/Video/Animated.
Here?s the share for that folder:
[MediaShares]
comment = Non-guest share for file manipulations
path = "/share01"
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
wide links = yes
When did ls -la, I got:
[hal at brandyhall:Video]$ lla
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 8 hal 4096 Mar 15 22:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 hal 4096 Mar 15 20:42 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 hal 4096 Mar 15 22:19 ._Animated
drwxr-xr-x 40 hal 4096 Nov 28 23:52 Animated/
-rw-r--r-- 1 hal 4096 Mar 15 20:42 ._.DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 hal 14340 Mar 16 23:41 .DS_Store
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 24 Mar 15 20:40 DVR -> /share02/DVR/Channels/TV/
-rw-r--r-- 1 hal 4096 Mar 15 20:44 ._Fix
drwxr-xr-x 34 hal 4096 Feb 13 16:24 Fix/
drwxr-xr-x 5 hal 4096 Mar 15 20:45 KidsStuff/
drwxr-xr-x 2 hal 4096 Mar 15 22:19 Movies/
drwxr-xr-x 2 hal 4096 Mar 15 22:15 Seasonal/
drwxr-xr-x 5 hal 4096 Mar 15 21:17 TVShows/
So the Animated folder I created with drag and drop has the same permissions as
all the other folders in that directory and the same owner. (The UID number is
the same on Animated as the rest of the folders.) Note the permissions are all
the same as the other folders. I deleted ._Animated and the ._DS_Store and
.DS_Store files in Animated, since I know Apple sometimes stores info in those
files. That didn?t change anything. I?ve also restarted Samba.
On the Linux server, on the command line (no GUI on the server - waste of
resources), this directory seems to be the same as all the others. But when I
view it on any Macs on my LAN, it shows up as a grayed out folder. I can?t open
it or do anything with it.
To solve the problem, I got on the Linux computer and created another directory,
moved all the files into it and renamed Animated to something else, to get it
out of the way.
So why was the folder grayed out and why, on the server, does it seem to be the
same (in terms of permissions and so on) as all the other folders?
How do I fix it and, in the future, how do I keep this problem from happening
again?
Hal
