On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:57:21AM -0700, Brian Martin wrote: > I have Samba 4.0.9 installed under Ubuntu 12.04. It's configured as > a domain member, with a Windows 2008R2 server being the DC. All > workstations are running Windows 7. One of my users is reporting > problems in the following scenario: > > 1) She creates a folder in one of the Samba shares, and places a > number of documents there. > 2) She closes all open documents and closes Windows Explorer > 3) Another user on another workstation subsequently renames the > folder as part of the work flow process to indicate it has been > reviewed. > 4) The original user then navigates to where the renamed folder > should be and cannot find it, either under the original name or the > new name. Refreshing doesn't help. > 5) After a period of time, typically 3-5 minutes but in one case > around 30 minutes, the folder reappears under the new name. > > The window of time between steps 2 and 4 is typically fairly small, > as in an hour or less. The problem is intermittent. In the > 30-minute case I was able to get on to my own Win7 workstation and > look at the network share, and I saw the folder under the new name. > I then checked with the user and she reported she still couldn't see > it after a refresh, though it appeared shortly (minutes) thereafter. > > As diagnostic steps, I've asked the user to try a) logging off; b) > rebooting; but we don't have results of those tests yet. > > I considered that this might be related to bug 10174 > <https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10174>, but the original > user is making sure she doesn't have any files or folders open > before the rename occurs.
No, that isn't a related issue. 10174 is a correctness issue that I'm not sure affects any real application (although of course you never know with Windows apps. :-). > 1) Is this a known issue? > 2) Is anyone else experiencing this? > 3) Does anyone have any fixes or workarounds? It's not known to the developers. It looks like a failure of change notify, but you'd have to drill down much deeper with wireshark traces to look into it. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
