Hi all,

I have installed SAMBA and it works fine. Each user with WinXP has its
own home folder and all printers all shared between all WinXP users. The
problem is when I create a folder in my shared folder and then restart
the server, my new created folder at my own home folder is gone. It
seems that SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users in their
home folders when the server is restarted. It sounds unusual since all
my data will be gone and therefore these folders for each user will be
practically useless. Is there something that I can change in SAMBA's
settings, so my new created folders and all files transfered to it will
be remain unchanged even when the server is restarted? I want to use it
as a backup server, so it should save all my files permanently.

Thanks,

Danesh


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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:17:45AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote:
>
> I have installed SAMBA and it works fine. Each user with WinXP has its
> own home folder and all printers all shared between all WinXP users. The
> problem is when I create a folder in my shared folder and then restart
> the server, my new created folder at my own home folder is gone. It
> seems that SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users in their
> home folders when the server is restarted. It sounds unusual since all
> my data will be gone and therefore these folders for each user will be
> practically useless. Is there something that I can change in SAMBA's
> settings, so my new created folders and all files transfered to it will
> be remain unchanged even when the server is restarted? I want to use it
> as a backup server, so it should save all my files permanently.

your explanation is confusing.sounds like you have fileserver running
debian with samba and you have desktop with winxp, right? So you
create a folder using the winxp machine? but where is that folder
created? on the winxp's harddrive, but in the shared folder? or is it
created in some network share on the server?

Also, you claim "SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users
in their home folders..." I find that hard to believe. That sounds
more like a windows problem.

A

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Well, I explain in more detail now. I have a Debian file and print
server which runs SAMBA. I use SAMBA to share printers between my WinXP
machines and it works fine. As you know, when you careate an account in
SAMBA for each WinXP user, when SAMBA server appears in the Wokgroup
computers in WinXP machines, you can click on SAMBA server and you will
see all printers shared and also a folder which acts as home folder for
each WinXP user. Then you can go in your folder and put files in that.
It exactly is like home folders in Linux. Also, all it contents is on
server and not local XP machines. Now, when I create a new folder in my
home folder (which resides on Debian server (SAMBA)) it works fine, but
when I restart the server the new created folder will be deleted. I want
SAMBA to hold all files in home folders (which is created for each user
and is accessible by only that user remotely) even when it is restarted.

D.




Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:17:45AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote:
>
>> I have installed SAMBA and it works fine. Each user with WinXP has its
>> own home folder and all printers all shared between all WinXP users. The
>> problem is when I create a folder in my shared folder and then restart
>> the server, my new created folder at my own home folder is gone. It
>> seems that SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users in their
>> home folders when the server is restarted. It sounds unusual since all
>> my data will be gone and therefore these folders for each user will be
>> practically useless. Is there something that I can change in SAMBA's
>> settings, so my new created folders and all files transfered to it will
>> be remain unchanged even when the server is restarted? I want to use it
>> as a backup server, so it should save all my files permanently.
>>
>
> your explanation is confusing.sounds like you have fileserver running
> debian with samba and you have desktop with winxp, right? So you
> create a folder using the winxp machine? but where is that folder
> created? on the winxp's harddrive, but in the shared folder? or is it
> created in some network share on the server?
>
> Also, you claim "SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users
> in their home folders..." I find that hard to believe. That sounds
> more like a windows problem.
>
> A
>

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:26:38PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> Well, I explain in more detail now. I have a Debian file and print
> server which runs SAMBA. I use SAMBA to share printers between my WinXP
> machines and it works fine. As you know, when you careate an account in
> SAMBA for each WinXP user, when SAMBA server appears in the Wokgroup
> computers in WinXP machines, you can click on SAMBA server and you will
> see all printers shared and also a folder which acts as home folder for
> each WinXP user. Then you can go in your folder and put files in that.
> It exactly is like home folders in Linux.

okay, that makes sense

> Also, all it contents is on
> server and not local XP machines. Now, when I create a new folder in my
> home folder (which resides on Debian server (SAMBA)) it works fine, but
> when I restart the server the new created folder will be deleted. I want
> SAMBA to hold all files in home folders (which is created for each user
> and is accessible by only that user remotely) even when it is restarted.

so can you confirm, before the reboot, that the new folder is actually
on the server? through the winxp machine, create a folder and then
physically confirm on the fileserver that the folder is created. I
suspect that you may be facing an issue where windows is not actually
creating the folder onthe server, or is caching the info and its not
getting synced to the server properly. IOW, windows acts like its
creating the folder, but is not actually doing it, thus it
"disappears" when the server reboots because the network connection is
lost and so windows dumps all the info it has on it.

that's all the I can offer on this.

A

>
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:17:45AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> >
> >>I have installed SAMBA and it works fine. Each user with WinXP has its
> >>own home folder and all printers all shared between all WinXP users. The
> >>problem is when I create a folder in my shared folder and then restart
> >>the server, my new created folder at my own home folder is gone. It
> >>seems that SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users in their
> >>home folders when the server is restarted. It sounds unusual since all
> >>my data will be gone and therefore these folders for each user will be
> >>practically useless. Is there something that I can change in SAMBA's
> >>settings, so my new created folders and all files transfered to it will
> >>be remain unchanged even when the server is restarted? I want to use it
> >>as a backup server, so it should save all my files permanently.
> >>
> >
> >your explanation is confusing.sounds like you have fileserver running
> >debian with samba and you have desktop with winxp, right? So you
> >create a folder using the winxp machine? but where is that folder
> >created? on the winxp's harddrive, but in the shared folder? or is it
> >created in some network share on the server?
> >
> >Also, you claim "SAMBA deletes all new created folder by WinXP users
> >in their home folders..." I find that hard to believe. That sounds
> >more like a windows problem.
> >
> >A
> >
>

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