Files completely hidden from client - HELP!!

[lwinstead]

Files were stored on a Win2003 Standard server. I bought a NAS device, running Windows 2003 Storage Server. I moved some files onto the NAS. Through login script, clients are mapped to files on NAS.

This morning, not all files are showing up for the clients. The files are there, but they're completely invisible to the clients. COMPLETELY. Why is this happening? The clients can't see the files at all. Not if they look through a mapped drive or UNC path. Nada.

Can anyone help me out? This is driving me nuts!

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[ScottCr]

Do the users have the relevant permissions on the files?

If the NAS employs Access Based Enumeration then they can't see what they don't have permissoin on.

I assume the administrator can see the files?

Scott.

http://scottcross.blogspot.com

Windows and NT Admin.

 

[lwinstead]

ScottCr,

Thanks for replying. Yes, permissions are wide open. I had them set properly, and thought that might be it. Obviously, it isn't. The admin (me) also has wide open rights to the folders in question, and none of us can see the files that should be there. Basically, it looks like its on the NAS end of things, but I haven't a frickin' clue at this point.


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[ScottCr]

This will sound like a weird question, but how do you know they are there if you can't see them?

Is it possible that some of them have the hidden attribute ticked?

In windows explorer make sure that 'show hidden files and folders' is ticked.

http://scottcross.blogspot.com

Windows and NT Admin.

 

[lwinstead]

I know the files are there because when I RD into the NAS, I can see the files just fine. I can play with them all I want, and I still see them just fine from the remote desktop session. But from any client, including me, as a domain admin, I can't see some of the files.

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[lwinstead]

By the way, in case anyone is wondering, this has been solved. Why no one else either knows about the fix, or cares, is beyond me, considering the wide range of people this affects.

The problem is on Windows XP when viewing subfolders of shares from Windows 2003 SP1. The root folders of the share are visible, but subfolders and files are not. This problem may appear after the application of KB885250 on Windows XP SP1/2 (no, not "one half"). This problem, among others, is fixed with KB896427.

REPEAT, the problem is fixed with KB896427. You apply that to the Windows XP clients, and after a restart, they can see all subfolders on shares from Windows 2003 SP1. Specifically, this had to do with the delay Windows XP has when browsing shares. Apparently, its too short before KB896427, which restores it to the 9.6 ms default it should be.

Huh, Microsoft makes a hotfix, which breaks something, and then fixes it with another hotfix. Strange, eh?

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