Folders display as files

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Sunday 28 March 2010, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> Both my desktop and laptop run Kubuntu 9.10.  I have partitions on
> each of them called /data and /data2 with symlinks for each
> in /home/jerry.  /home/jerry is shared using Samba.
> 
> Until yesterday when I displayed the desktop's /home/jerry in
> Dolphin on the laptop it showed /data and /data2 as folders and I
> could open them.  When I displayed the laptop's /home/jerry in
> Dolphin on the desktop it showed /data and /data2 as folders and
> I could open them.  Now when I do it they show as files - type
> unknown.
> 
> I haven't changed anything but I did accept a bug fix update which
> I recall included Samba.
> 
> Anybody else experienced anything like this?

Only in VirtualBox.
Your Samba upgrade may have changed the Samba config. Did you check 
to see whether this might be the case?

  --Reinhold