Hi Samba List, I am finding a strange problem between a mount samba directory. Any clues why this is happening? The server side is WD MyBook World Edition II and the export directory is: /shares/internal/Music/ on the client site I am mounting the directory to /mnt/mybook-music the client is an ubuntu server $ uname -a Linux tsunami 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ mount /dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) //192.168.1.20/Music on /mnt/mybook-music type cifs (rw,mand) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) Now here is the issue. The directory views for a particular directory are not the same on server vs. the client side. From the client side I do an 'ls -l /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music | wc -l' see that the output equals the line could of 'mnt/mybook-music' $ ls -l /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music | wc -l 2242 $ ls -l /mnt/mybook-music | wc -l 2242 now on the server side # ls -l /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music | wc -l 4 [root@MyBookMusic Madonna]# ls -l /shares/internal/Music | wc -l 2242 The client sees all the files that are displayed from 'ls /mnt/mybook-music' command and also displayed from an 'ls /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music' command. where on the server side 'ls -l /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music' does not show the contents of '/shares/internal/Music' and only show 3 files. # ls -l /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music total 11396 -rwxr-xr-x 1 noah noah 3345473 Apr 11 2006 Gone.mp3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 noah noah 3483214 May 3 2005 Impressive Instant.mp3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 noah noah 4814848 May 3 2005 Nobody's Perfect.mp3 server side version details: [root@MyBookMusic Madonna]# ipkg list_installed | grep samba samba - 3.2.4-1 - Samba suite provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. client version details: $ dpkg --list | grep samba ii samba 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.7 a LanManager-like file and printer server for Unix ii samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.7 Samba common files used by both the server and the clien the client mounted //192.168.1.20/Music from the fstab. $ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hdb1 UUID=e0b6f66b-b3f6-44f4-b5b6-e2cfb6e32048 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/hdb5 UUID=e1d2239f-b911-4ee2-848e-6bcb3672104d none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0 //192.168.1.20/Music /mnt/mybook-music smbfs userid=<username>,passwd=<password>,rw 0 0 and the server configuration is: # cat /etc/smb.conf [global] server string=MyBookMusic workgroup=workgroup interfaces=192.168.1.20/24 127.0.0.1/8 security=user smb passwd file=/var/private/smbpasswd private dir=/var/private guest account=www-data dns proxy=No lock directory=/var/locks pid directory=/var/locks use sendfile=Yes map to guest = Bad User create mask = 755 map hidden = Yes veto files = /shares/internal/.senvidData/ /shares/internal/lost+found/ max log size = 1 [dummy-2] include=/var/oxsemi/shares.inc # cat /var/oxsemi/shares.inc [PUBLIC] path=/shares/internal/PUBLIC force user=www-data valid users=www-data noah write list=www-data noah guest ok=Yes [Music] path=/shares/internal/Music force user=noah valid users=www-data BACKUP noah write list=www-data BACKUP noah guest ok=Yes browseable=yes writable=yes security mask=0700 create mask=0700 Cheers, Noah