Sort of can't see file over SAMBA share

[padukes]

Hi all,

I have a webserver which is a gentoo box. It has a page which (via PHP) lists the files in a directory on my windows box which is mounted via samba (2.2.8a). When I just list the files everything works fine. However, when I try to retrieve additional information about the file (last modified time and size) I get errors like this:

[taskara]

oh that is weird.


what happens if you mount the samba share manually to a local mount point? can you check file details there?

if so it's perhaps something wrong with your php script?

and if not.. then we shoot samba
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[padukes]

yeah - this is all with a manual samba mount - Now I need to shoot samba?

-P

[taskara]

hmmm...

so even mounting samba manually and checking for files does not work?

what about from a windows box?
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[imeridian]

I'd say it's a problem relating to the spaces in the filename and thus related to a 'problem' with the php script. In my experience whenever there's a space in a filename (and this may apply to the other 'non-standard' characters like the apostrophe) that space needs to be escaped when dealt with on the command line. With TAB completion it should show the spaces escaped (and other problematic characters).

[padukes]

Hey all,

Thanks for the responses. So, it's definately not due to escaping characters because all of my files have spaces in their names and many have apostrophes - and I've been pretty careful about that kind of stuff. However, when I got home tonight I looked at the filename in windows explorer and it was: "Fool´s Garden - Lemon Tree.doc" - Notice that the apostrophe isn't really an aposotrophe but some weird character I can't even find on my keyboard.

So my new theory is that windows has some extended character set that samba doesn't support. Is that possible? The even weirder thing is that now that I am at home, when I go to view my page, it gives the correct size and last modified time - with no errors?!?!

Any ideas? Thanks again for your help,
P

[fleed]

You probably have a code page mismatch. I've had sooooo much grief with that. Make sure you're using the same codepage on all machines.

[padukes]

Thanks! What is a code page? How do I check that they're mismatched?

[fleed]

Codepage is what maps characters to numbers. Eg, 32 is space, etc. It's usually a problem only if you use accented characters (á ë ù, for eg) or some symbols.

According to samba docs (man smb.conf then look for codepage) you can check the windows codepage by typing chcp in a dos window. Try that and see if it matches what you have on your samba server. If you have nothing set in smb.conf then I think it uses 850.

Hope that helps!

[imeridian]

I'm actually having the same problem now [that I installed gentoo on my file server].

Whenever I try to work with files on mounted shares I get "file not found" errors.

I tried setting samba on the server to use codepage 437 via this in the global portion:
client code page = 437

and put codepage=cp437 as one of the options in the fstab entry of the client, but it doesn't seem to help at all.

To make matters worse after one of those errors it's causing the mount on the client to come back as busy so it can't be unmounted.


UPDATE: I think running FAM is the problem. I found this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=73786&highlight=samba+file and although it received no replies I stopped FAM and sure enough things started working properly in the "file not found" problem.