PDF files on Samba share "disappear" after updating
by mfoley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6J31F)
I've recently updated a Linux/Samba file server from Slackware 14.2 to 15.0, and Samba 4.6.16 to 4.18.9, and our office is experiencing the weirdest thing ...
We use PhantomPDF to scan document to .pdf and to append pages to existing PDFs. This software is the same as before the upgrade and anyway runs on the Windows computers, not Linux.
When scanning to append pages to an existing PDF file on the Samba share, the file, after scanning and saving "disappears"! It can not longer be seen in Windows Explorer. Yet if someone tries to copy a file from elsewhere to this disappeared destination they are aked if they want to replace the file.
This only happens on appends to existing PDF files. New PDFs can be scanned, Word and Excel files can be modified -- nothing disappears in this case.
If logged onto Linux where the Share is hosted, the file is there.
The relevant Samba smb.conf section is below, unchanged from before the upgrade:
Code:[public]
comment = OHPRS main file and document repository
path = /mnt/RAID/public
hide files = /Outlook/outlook/~*/
readonly = no
locking = yes
public = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0660
force user = user
force group = group
force create mode = 0660
directory mask = 2771I am really stumped. Does anyone have any idea how this could be happening?
We use PhantomPDF to scan document to .pdf and to append pages to existing PDFs. This software is the same as before the upgrade and anyway runs on the Windows computers, not Linux.
When scanning to append pages to an existing PDF file on the Samba share, the file, after scanning and saving "disappears"! It can not longer be seen in Windows Explorer. Yet if someone tries to copy a file from elsewhere to this disappeared destination they are aked if they want to replace the file.
This only happens on appends to existing PDF files. New PDFs can be scanned, Word and Excel files can be modified -- nothing disappears in this case.
If logged onto Linux where the Share is hosted, the file is there.
The relevant Samba smb.conf section is below, unchanged from before the upgrade:
Code:[public]
comment = OHPRS main file and document repository
path = /mnt/RAID/public
hide files = /Outlook/outlook/~*/
readonly = no
locking = yes
public = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0660
force user = user
force group = group
force create mode = 0660
directory mask = 2771I am really stumped. Does anyone have any idea how this could be happening?