I'm not going to delete them yet, but I did try and make a new link to /mnt/nmr which had the same issue, so I don't think deleting and remaking will fix it.

 

Permissions of some sort may be the problem. I'd still expect them to appear as folders though and throw out a permissions error when I try to open them rather than the folders appearing as 0 byte files.

I don't really know how samba handles permissions but showing what's there could possibly be a security issue...?

 

But yeah, I avoid samba (well, I avoid windows file sharing really because it never fucking works) so I don't know much :C

Thanks for the help and pointing me towards permissions :C

 

NOTHING has been changed. Stupid thing.

(Slackware is a fucking odd choice for a server)

(I think it's because my boss thinks it's particularly stable.

 

Not sure how true that is, but the thing doesn't seem to ever crash, though it's only acting as a file and web server, so nothing intense.)

(it's a good distro, and some people know it inside out. very very flexible. A lot like Arch really. I'd want something friendlier on a server is all)

(There's only me and him with any proper access, and there was only him until I turned up. It's certainly not as easy to use as ubuntu, but that's probably more a case of me being used to ubuntu on the command line. It's not a great deal different though. Most commands work across different distros. I've only tried to install a few new packages on it in the past and from what I remember it wasn't as simple as "apt-get install <thing>". He's a full time Linux user so he's more than comfortable with it all. I think he uses Kubuntu on his desktop)

(Oh aye, in terms of just using it linux is linux for the most part. It's about how it handles updates. Apt is just really good at... not breaking. And being fixable when it does break)

(Yeah, I wouldn't even bother attempting to update this server myself)

Well it's not a symlink issue.

 

It seems like we can no longer share a cifs mount over samba.

 

/mnt/nmr is a cifs share off a novell server (I think), that require a login. It mounts fine, it just can't be accessed over samba. It's not just a Windows issue, the samba share can't be seen properly in Linux either.

Problem solved.

 

The fs type was changed from smbfs to cifs a while back because things stopped working (or IT made a change). Changed it back and things are working again. I assume they made another change.