Snow Leopard/SBS 2008: Empty folders out of root?

Hi,
We have our iMac connected to a SBS 2008 server. We can access the root directory of the server's SMB shares without problem, however all sub-folders are blank when navigated to in Finder.
Oddly enough their contents is shown when navigating using an Open dialog from within an application.
What is going on? Thanks.

Hi Arnel,
Please refer to the suggestion that Merv Porter provided. It will help you to recover Disk Space.
Just additional. In MonitoringServiceLogs, Contains logs for SBS Monitoring and its associated data collection
tasks. Also, please refer to following articles. It will help us to understand the winsxs folder and Installer folder better.
What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx
Should you delete files in the \WinSXS directory? And what’s the deal with VSS?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/08/06/should-you-delete-files-in-the-winsxs-directory-and-what-s-the-deal-with-vss.aspx
Can you safely delete files in the %windir%\Installer directory?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2012/01/18/can-you-safely-delete-files-in-the-windir-installer-directory.aspx
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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