FOLLOW-UP: Mounting samba, some files are invisible

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Fri Oct 10 12:39:02 UTC 2014


On 10/09/14 16:06, Martin Hanson wrote:
> I have installed a box with FreeBSD 10.0 stable just to test and the problem resides.
>
> I have also tried creating some new users on the Linux Samba box and granting them access to the shares. Mounting using their credentials with mount_smbfs creates the same problem.
>
> Using smbclient works.
>
> Mounting from a Linux box using "cifs-utils" ie. "mount -t cifs" also works.
>
> I am beginning to suspect mount_smbfs.
>
> A directory containing a lot of files, all with the same credentials, only about half shows up if mounted using a FreeBSD 10.0 or 10.1-RC1 mount_smbfs no matter what user mounts.
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Hmmmm .... now that you mention it, I thought cifs superceded smbfs, 
i.e. you are supposed to be using cifs & *not* smbfs .... I should have 
caught that earlier, asleep at the switch ....


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