I am finding a strange problem between a mount samba directory. Any clues why this is happening? I have two servers. The samba server is a Western Digital World Edition II (2) server. The samba client (server) is running Ubuntu-kernel linux-2.6.24-22-generic The samba server is exporting the directory: /shares/internal/Music/ The client is mounting the exported directory to /mnt/mybook-music Now here is the issue. Samba Client Drive Mount: On the samba client side I see that the same files 2241 files that appear in /mnt/mybook (or on the samba server side /shares/internal/Music) also appear in /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music (or on the samba server side /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music) Samba Server: On the samba server side I see 2241 files in /shares/internal/Music (or /mnt/mybook on the client side) and only 4 files in the /shares/internal/Music/Madonna/Music directory (or /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music on the client side). Be advised the data from the ‘wc –l’ counts an extra line so when the total is 2242 there is in fact only 2241 files. Why is that happening? Why aren’t only 4 files seen on the samba client directory since that is only what exists on the samba server side. And why on the client side there appears to be the same files that same 2241 files that exist in /mnt/mybook-music/ appear in the directory /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music as well when only 3 files show be contained in /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music. What is even more peculiar is that when I use smbclient to log into the samba server from the samba client machine I see that there are only 3 files in /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music instead of the claimed 2241 files as seen in the mount on the samba client (of the samba server /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music directory). Here is the smbclient output details. smbclient properly discovers 3 files in the directory ~$ smbclient //192.168.1.20/Music -Unoah Password: Domain=[MYBOOKMUSIC] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c] smb: \> smb: \> cd Madonna/Music smb: \Madonna\Music\> ls . D 0 Sun Sep 12 20:03:15 2004 .. D 0 Tue Apr 26 10:14:22 2005 Gone.mp3 AH 3345473 Tue Apr 11 09:06:03 2006 Impressive Instant.mp3 AH 3483214 Tue May 3 12:35:22 2005 Nobody's Perfect.mp3 AH 4814848 Tue May 3 12:35:22 2005 58437 blocks of size 16777216. 42128 blocks available So lets get some more relevant output here: From the samba client: 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 From the samba 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 client the client mounted //192.168.1.20/Music from the fstab. noah@tsunami:~$ 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=noah,passwd=<password>,rw 0 0 //192.168.1.20/Music /mnt/mybook-music cifs userid=noah,passwd=<password>,rw 0 0 Client system details with mount information $ uname -a Linux tsunami 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux noah@tsunami:~$ 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) //192.168.1.20/Music on /mnt/mybook-music type cifs (rw,mand) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) samba server configuration files: # 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 read only = no security mask=0755 create mask=0755 Cheers, Noah
please reopen if this is still an issue with a recent supported version like 4.13 and attach an smbd level 10 log if files are still missing.