smb share not displaying all files in finder

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smb share not displaying all files in finder

Hi,

I am conneting to an SMB share on a windows xp machine. There are 137 directories on the share, when I view the share via finder i see just 30 directories, when i view the share via the command line i see all 137.

I have no idea why the finder is not displaying all folders, anybody know where to start looking to diagnose the problem?

thx!

Powermac G5, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jul 31, 2007 10:50 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 31, 2007 12:48 PM in response to Philip Hodey

Could you please specify the exact command, you are using for displaying the content?
Probably your files are hidden, your finder doesn't show them but the terminal-commmand does.
A tool for showing hidden files in your Finder would be Onyx for example.

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Philip Hodey Author

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Jul 31, 2007 1:10 PM in response to junialter

just using ls to view the content via the command line. also, i have checked the file properties in the smb share itself and there is not hidden properties set. I have also connected to the smb share via a windows box and it does show all files. this is peculiar to just mac os x via the finder.

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Oct 12, 2007 6:08 AM in response to Philip Hodey

Hi,

Me too, I am encountering the same problem, not with Windows XP but with a virtual Windows NT machine.

I am connecting to an SMB share on a Unix server running under Sun Solaris (vers. 8) on which the Windows NT machine is emulated by running PC Netlink (version 2.0 Rev=rr24).

Viewing share folders by clicking them via Finder, I see only a maximum of 30 entries (folders and/or files) in each sub folder, though many of them contain dozens or hundreds of objects.

When I view those folders via the command line in the Terminal, I see even less: only 14 objects appear. For each sorting mode the same 14 objects are visible.

When I copy a file from my local harddisk into such a folder, it disappears immediately after copying. When I copy the same file a second time into the same folder, a message pops up rejecting the copying because another file with that name already exists. Together with that message the "hidden" first copy now appears in the finder window, only to disappear again when the warning message is clicked away.

I do see all objects when I mount the shares on a PC or on my old PB G3, running Classic MacOS 9.2.2. And I did see all objects before I migrated from MacOS X 10.3.9 to MacOS X 10.4.10.

The names of the "hidden" objects are all OK (neither beginning nor ending with a dot, etc.).

I am curious if somebody found a solution for the prob, or what workaround you are using.

Thank you

Fred

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