RE: tramp (2.1.7); Problem with tramp-smb: file no longer exists, type g to revert]

[Tom Wurgler]

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First message: I can connect to my shared drive ok via
First message: 
First message: dired /smb:address@hidden:/Share/
First message: 
First message: though once I get there I have a empty dired and I have to hit a 
"g", then
First message: the file list comes up and looks fine.
First message: 
First message: But then, when I move my cursor to any directory in the list and 
try 
First message: to dive into it, it says:
First message: 
First message: "File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired buffer"
First message: 
First message: so I can't dired dirs. I hit the g but it continues to say the 
same thing.
First message: 
First message: Am I not doing things right or is this a bug?
First message: thanks
First message: tom
First message: 
First message: Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.0.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X 
toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
First message:  of 2006-10-31 on alnx004
First message: Package: tramp (2.1.7)

Second message: More info:
Second message: 
Second message: The next dir down that gave the above error is read-only.  As 
is even the next
Second message: level down from there (and I have no control on those 
permissions).  But then at
Second message: the next level down there are dirs that I can read and write to 
and if I type
Second message: all that path to start with, things start working.  I am able 
to dired, copy etc
Second message: etc from those dirs.
Second message: 
Second message: If I run smbclient from a shell window command line, I can cd 
to each of the
Second message: dirs that are read-only, do dirs etc and see the contents, so I 
think this
Second message: means that it is not the settings on the dir itself blocking 
tramp, but rather
Second message: something tramp detects as a problem when it isn't.  AFAICT, 
the read-only
Second message: attribute is the only thing different between dirs I can dired 
and those I can't.
Second message: 
Second message: This sound reasonable?  
Second message: 
Second message: Thanks
Second message: tom
Second message: 
Second message: ps I still have to do a "g" on each dir I go to.

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Here is the issue:

(file-exists-p "/smb:address@hidden:/Share")     ==> t
(file-exists-p "/smb:address@hidden:/Share/next_dir")     ==> nil

Is this something on the Linux side or something on the pc side?  Some bug in
emacs itself?

As stated above, I can do any dir, cd etc via a smbclient command-line

thanks
tom