I've just come across a problem that had me baffled for a bit. We supply
students with
diskspace via a Solaris machine running Samba (2.0.6). Yesterday, I got a report
that a couple
of students could not access their diskspace, although at login time the drive
was getting
mapped. The problem was that if they tried to view the contents of the directory
(explorer or dir)
the process would hang for a minute or two and then report that the drive was
inaccessible.
Looking through the students directories and checking the codes out (several
more had
appeared before I solved the problem), I discovered that what they all had in
common was that
they were doing a Unix course, which had involved them setting up links to a
subdirectory of a
lecturers home directory. The problem was that that directory was not visible on
the samba
server. Allowing the server to access this directory cured the problem but
highlights a potential
problem: If a link points to an object that cannot be accessed then directory
operations seem to
be affected. Is there anyway to make samba ignore links if it can't resolve
them?
Martin.
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Martin Rootes - Senior Systems Programmer/Analyst, Sheffield Hallam University
Email : M.Rootes@shu.ac.uk
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