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I have an old HP-UX system running version 11.11, it has a cifs mount configured to a netapp filer.

In the past several days we've been seeing some odd behaviour for the share where files can be created & accessed if the full path is used, but wildcard listings are failing. Remounting the share seems to correct this behaviour. A practical example:

cd /path/in/myshare
touch newfile.txt
ls * #finds nothing
ls newfile.txt #finds file
umount /sharepath 
mount -a 
ls * #finds the file

Anyone have any guesses as to what's causing this odd behaviour?

JMP
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Hmmm, I believe old pointers/soft links were broken or corrupted when the mount was moved, resulting in false pointers.

Remounting would update the paths allowing the wildcards to work properly again.

Techknow
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This problem can occur on Windows clients as well when running a buggy version of SMB2. Force the client to speak SMB3 and see if the problem goes away.

Find you samba configguration

$ sudo vi smb.conf

Change the minimum protocol to SMB3

min protocol = SMB3

NOTE: You might need to update HP-UX, see bulletin:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c05121842

HackSlash
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