SMB Symlinks Showing as 0kb on Windows PCs
Hello again everyone. After my previous post on problems with wide symlinks and how to fix that finally resolved I now have another irritating issue I can't seem to put my finger on.
Seems that shares I have hosted off my Mac Pro over SMB are now randomly showing as 0kb files when I connect on windows machines. The kicker is there is NO pattern (That I've found yet) to what files/folders show up as 0kb AND even though they are showing up as 0kb if its a file and I double click it it will actually open. If its a folder Windows states that it doesn't know how to open it. I've tried everything under the sun to try and fix this:
•Checking file permissions on my Mac
•Tried changing how drives are shared on my Mac
•Trying different user accounts on both mac and pc
•Trying LAN vs WAN smb access
•Trying on multiple different PCs with XP,Server 2008,and Win 7
•Trying a different directory / drive the symlinks are on
•Remaking the symlinks
•Adjusting network card settings on both mac and pc (MTU, duplex, etc)
If I connect via SMB or AFP with another mac to my mac pro everything works fine. Its only if I use Windows that this random behavior occurs. Sometimes a folder with 600 symlinks will only show 5 folders as 0kb. Sometimes it'll show half of them as 0kb and inaccessible. Its completely random. It just is so odd that the files that show as 0kb still open! Its like Windows is not correctly mapping the symlink to the actual file. None of this started happening until Lion was installed so I know it once again has something to do with the wonderful new Apple made Samba they are now using. Not sure if I need to adjust some timeout variable in the com.apple.smbd.plist file or maybe a setting on windows IDK.
But I need all of your help again. Anyone else experience this? Try making a bunch of symlinks off a bunch of drives (like hundreds/thousands) and put them in one folder and share that folder out on a mac via SMB connecting to it from a Windows box. Any of the symlinks show as 0kb?
Here is an example of what I'm talking about:
The files showing as 0k with a Cone will open in VLC as they are files.
The files showing as 0k with a generic windows icon are actually symlinks of folders and DO NOT open.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Verify that none of those files use characters in their filename that are not allowed for paths in Windows: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/File-names-and-file-name-extens ions-frequently-asked-questions#
Alternately - make sure that there are no trailing spaces on any of the filenames - this has caused me some grief in the past.
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