I need help trying to figure this one out.  I am completely confused.  Last night I wanted to create a mix of music using audacity.  When I tried to add an MP3 the files appeared to be missing.  My music is stored on the tower under a share called music with the following structure music\U2\JoshuaTree\*.mp3.  The folders are still there but the files are missing.  I thought this was pretty wierd.  I opend Itunes and tried to play some music and it worked.  Looked at the properties and sure enough its location is \\tower\music\u2\joshuatree\*.mp3.  I then tried opening up windows explorer and same thing - files missing.  But this is where it gets really interesting.  If I right click on a folder (JoshuaTree) and go to properties I see 11 files, 53mb.  This is true for all album folders.  I then opened unmenu and went to file manager, browsed to an album location, and all the mp3's are there.  So I can see the files in unmenu and itunes but thats it.  Not in windows explorer or any other application browsing to the location.  The last thing i tried was copying an mp3 from my desktop to the music share - I can see that one.  I have no idea what is happening.  Oh, one last thing, all of my other shares seem to be working fine.  Folder structure and all files appear.  I am running unraid 4.5.3 and unmenu 1.3.  Any and all help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks

enable the viewing of hidden and system files in Window's file-explorer.

 

Joe L.

Joe,

 

I checked this and verified that I am showing hidden files and folders.

What are the file permissions? If they are executable they appear as system files.

 

Did you try making the files 644 (in unix)

 

Joe,

 

I checked this and verified that I am showing hidden files and folders.

I used the chmod 777 command on the entire music directory.  Still no luck.

That's what's causing the problem...use 644 on the files....try it in one sub-directory first.

 

Then you need to use the find command to only change the files to 644 but leave the directories 777 or 775

something like:

 

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

 

I forgot the exact syntax.

 

 

I used the chmod 777 command on the entire music directory.  Still no luck.

Ok,

 

I had a few minutes to try making the files 644 - and it worked. I still don't understand how that happened in the first place but I guess its irrelevant.  At least it can be corrected.  I just have to figure out the syntax to do all files  but not directories.  Thanks for everyones help.

 

 

Ok,

 

I had a few minutes to try making the files 644 - and it worked. I still don't understand how that happened in the first place but I guess its irrelevant.  At least it can be corrected.  I just have to figure out the syntax to do all files  but not directories.  Thanks for everyones help.

 

 

It was just posted for you:

cd /mnt

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Joe,

 

Sorry, I should have been more clear in my last post.  I couldn't get that to work.  I just did a little research and had to make a couple of modifications. 

I changed directories to /mnt/disk1/music and then used the following

find -type -f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;

 

I can now see all of my files in windows explorer again.  Thanks to you and foo fighter!

The reason that worked is as follows:

 

Here's a previous post that explains this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6609.msg64025#msg64025 (repeated here to generate warm-fuzzies)

 

It is not a bug. It depends on how you configured SAMBA to map additional non-unix attributes, like the WinOS HIDDEN flag.

 

Look into the SAMBA options of "map hidden", "map archive", and "map system" within the smb.conf man pages.

 

I need help trying to figure this one out.  I am completely confused.

 

What version of Windows are you using?  You should  not have to change any file permissions, or change the way 'hidden/system/archive' is mapped.

i am using windows xp sp2.