RE: Invisible files smbfs W95
It could be, there were problems with the orignal win95 tcp/ip stack.
Supposedly service pack 1 takes care of this (or just install one of the
later versions, there are five versions of 95).
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent West [SMTP:westk@nicanor.acu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 1:22 AM
> To: Jiri Baum
> Subject: Re: Invisible files smbfs W95
>
> Jiri Baum wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a weird ongoing problem: I connect to a W95 box, smbmount a
> share,
> > but some files on the share do not show up on directory listings -
> even
> > though they are there, I can open them (from the Linux box), etc.
> Which
> > files show up seems to change from session to session and sometimes
> from
> > listing to listing.
> >
> > Any suggestions, please?
> >
> > I connect to the Windows 95 [4.00.950] box over Ethernet and TCP/IP
> and
> > mount about a dozen filesystems from it. I have a mostly-hamm system
> (samba
> > 1.9.18p8-2, smbfs 2.0.2-5, libc6 2.0.7t-1). Not sure what else is
> relevant.
> >
> > Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>
> >
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> This may have absolutely no bearing, but I used to see a similar
> thing on our network using only Windows. I never did find the
> cause/solution, because about that time we were getting new
> network equipment (converting to ATM) and transitioning to Win95
> from WFW, etc, and the problem went away. In other words, it
> might not be a samba/Linux issue; it might be a
> networking/Windows issue.
>
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