RE: Random File Visibility

From: Phil Agcaoili (PhilAgcaoili_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:17:02 -0800

You sharing permissions are hosed and the directory inheritance appears to be
fouled up.

Part of this also appears to be user accounts.

Make sure that CLIENT accounts are on SERVER and have rights to the missing
shares.

"BigN8" wrote:

> I have quite the mysterious problem with file sharing in XP. I had a
> machine w/ 2KPro that was upgraded to XP Pro about two weeks ago (call this
> "SERVER"). Recently I discovered that if I view a file share on SERVER, the
> directory listing did not contain all the files in the directory. I can
> view some files in the shared directory, but seemingly random files are not
> visible. I have quadruple checked that these files do not have "hidden"
> attributes, and I have "show hidden files and folders" selected and "Hide
> protected operating system files (Recommended)" unchecked just in case,
> although the affected files have been anything from EPS to DWG to XLS. I
> originally was concerned that it was the CLIENT machine that was having the
> problem, but if I view the same directory from SERVER through a UNC path
> (\\<OWN NAME>\Share) and compare it to the local directory (D:\Share, for
> instance) I get different results. I can access any file in that directroy,
> as long as the full path and filename is known of the "invisible" file. I
> have deleted the share and rebuilt it. I have also built a share with a
> different sharename, but no different results. I have a share that contains
> folders that are shared beneath it. I have found that if I connect to the
> share above the share I intend to connect to and dril down to the folder I
> am after, I can see the contents of the target directory. The most
> frustrating part of this problem is the inconsistency of the symptoms. I
> have scanned all the machines on my network multiple times with mulptiple
> anti-virus apps and have found nothing, although I am not entirely confident
> in the scans, as this problem is way too flaky to explain as non-virus
> related. Any ideas about what to check or possible viruses that my scans
> may have missed would be GREATLY appreciated. I have included a screenshot
> (hopefully) of the same folder viewed from 3 different ways ( direct UNC,
> UNC from one directory level above, and local HD)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> BigN8
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