mounted directory repeating unexpected files and directories

[Noah]

> 
> My next suggestion for Noah, however, is to navigate to the shared
> directory with smbclient
> 
> smbclient //servername/music -Unoah
> 
> then cd Madona/Music  and ls
> 
> See if the correct file listing is returned.


okay Im back.  Yes I got side tracked on other projects here at work.

that looks right!  its the samba server acting up

smb: \> cd Madonna/Music
smb: \Madonna\Music\> ls
   .                                   D        0  Sun Sep 12 20:03:15 2004
   ..                                  D        0  Tue Apr 26 10:14:22 2005
   Gone.mp3                           AH  3345473  Tue Apr 11 09:06:03 2006
   Impressive Instant.mp3             AH  3483214  Tue May  3 12:35:22 2005
   Nobody's Perfect.mp3               AH  4814848  Tue May  3 12:35:22 2005

                 58437 blocks of size 16777216. 42128 blocks available


also changing to cifs didnt Help:

noah at tsunami:~$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
//192.168.1.20/Music on /mnt/mybook-music type cifs (rw,mand)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

noah at tsunami:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=e0b6f66b-b3f6-44f4-b5b6-e2cfb6e32048 /               ext3 
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hdb5
UUID=e1d2239f-b911-4ee2-848e-6bcb3672104d none            swap    sw 
           0       0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 
      0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 
      0
#//192.168.1.20/Music   /mnt/mybook-music smbfs 
userid=noah,passwd=<password>,rw 0 0
//192.168.1.20/Music    /mnt/mybook-music cifs 
userid=noah,passwd=<password>,rw 0 0


noah at tsunami:~$ ls /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music | wc -l
2273
noah at tsunami:~$ ls /mnt/mybook-music/ | wc -l
2273
noah at tsunami:~$ ls -ld /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music
drwxr-xr-x 2078 noah noah 0 2008-12-17 17:19 /mnt/mybook-music/Madonna/Music
noah at tsunami:~$




> 
> That way, you will know if there is something strange happening on the
> samba server, or if this is all some strange kernel bug with a
> subdirectory name that's the same as a share name (or the name of the
> directory with is shared,, this is all so confusing)
> 
>